Critical précis
The Précis [ pʁe'si: ] (French précis: exactly ') is a text form that is at the same time as "cupping " or " short, brief statement of " a very precise contents. He is the concise summary - with the main theses and arguments - a given other text and can serve the reader to avoid reading this original text.
The text reproduced here is reduced to exactly one-third the number of words without changing the factual information or the writing style. When the number of words, there is only a narrow margin. The essential idea of the original are reproduced without option to edit or to interpret. Images and comparisons are deleted from direct speech is indirect speech. The new text is a self- readable text.
Similar forms of text are Conspectus, excerpt and abstract / summary.