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.