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Summarising exercises are very often set on business examination papers because they test our abilities to understand what we read and to express ourselves concisely — two essential work skills. Examination questions may ask for a summary, precis or abstract. Generally a summary or precis implies a condensed version of the original, while an abstract requires the extraction of selected ideas from the passage and often their rearrangement.
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Woolcott, L.A., Unwin, W.R. (1983). Summarising. In: Mastering Business Communication. Palgrave Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17180-4_4
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