description of summarising

The reason we summarise is to sum up a huge piece of text into a couple of sentences for people to read quickly. Summarising is useful when you are in a hurry and you need to read a long piece of text and you summarise it to read faster. The advantages of summarising is it can shorten long text for you to understand. this is good because it will save time. The disadvantages of summarising is that you have to understand the text really well in order to summarise it, this is bad because it will take a long time to understand it