It can be useful to be able to summarise or precis a piece of text. This may be in order to give learners a more concise instruction or source text to work on than the original example. It may also be helpful if you wish to check the accuracy of the source text, since in summarising it, TeacherMatic may find - and repeat - errors that you are not noticing in the source. Keywords: Summarise; Summary; Precis; Shorten; Simplify;
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