Frequently Asked Questions
What is text summarization?
Text summarization shortens long text without changing its meaning. This allows anyone to understand the original content without actually reading it. Students often summarize text for essays, and professionals sometimes summarize text to turn long reports into a few easy-to-digest paragraphs. Tools like Grammarly’s summarizer, which uses AI technology, can help you create thoughtful summaries in less time.
What are the elements of a summary?
Good summaries all have a few things in common. Here
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s what to prioritize, whether writing your own short summary or fine-tuning one after using a summarizing tool:
- Clarity and brevity: Be clear and concise. Get to the point quickly.
- Objectivity: Stick to the facts. Avoid personal bias and opinions
- Focus: Highlight main ideas and omit non-essential details.
- Accuracy: Preserve the original text’s main points while retaining readability.
When done well, a summary gives readers a clear snapshot of the original text without bogging them down with detail. That may sound like a lot to juggle, but Grammarly is here to help. Use Grammarly
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s summary maker to create a quality summary in seconds.
How should I use this summarization tool?
With the help of Grammarly
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s text and article summarizer, you can quickly and concisely convey the key points of any piece of English writing. Here's a step-by-step guide to using this text summarizer tool:
- Type or paste the text you want to summarize into Grammarly’s summarizing tool.
- Select your preferred format—bullet points or paragraph. Bullet points are useful when you want to quickly see the main points of a text. Paragraph format is good for summaries you’ll use in your own essays, papers, and articles.
- Clarify your preferred writing style. To do this, think about your audience. If you’re a student writing a research paper, you may want your summary style to be “academic” or “formal.” If you’re a professional using a summary tool on a sales report, you may want your summary style to be “persuasive” or “technical.”
- Click the summarize button and copy the summary.
- If desired, adjust your summary with Grammarly, which can help you rewrite sentences, change tone, revise summary length, and more.
- Cite the original source to avoid accidental plagiarism of copyrighted work. Grammarly’s auto-citations feature makes this quick and simple. Additionally, Grammarly’s AI guidelines feature allows you to cite the use of AI in your work in just a few clicks.
What is a text summarizer?
A text summarizer is an AI-based tool that creates summaries of any piece of writing, from lists of bullet points to news articles to research papers. This tool can help you speed up summarizing so you have more time to focus on big ideas and meaningful work.
How does this summarizing tool work?
Grammarly’s online summarizer tool uses industry-leading algorithms and machine learning to shorten text while preserving its context and meaning. Grammarly has over a decade of experience creating writing-focused, advanced AI technology, so when you use Grammarly’s online summarizing tool, you can rest assured you’re getting top-quality content.
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