Today's piece from Kenneth Rogoff happens to summarise my view very eloquently.
From the economist.com
So to summarise, cars took off because of a heavy program of government spending.
From the guardian.co.uk
That could change, with software that can automatically summarise the footage.
From the newscientist.com
Bullet points can be a good way to clearly summarise your attributes, say experts.
From the bbc.co.uk
The lead section should summarise the whole article in about three paragraphs.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The new Divine Comedy isn't an easy book either to categorise or to summarise.
From the guardian.co.uk
So to summarise, breaking cutting-edge music to the masses is a wonderful mission.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This is a live political and economic debate that is too great to easily summarise.
From the economist.com
Read through the documentation and summarise what the ideal person would look like.
From the nzherald.co.nz
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Summarize: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
Sum up: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
To prepare a summary of something; To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
(Summarising) to put someone else's concept or main ideas into one's own words.
(Summarising) A summary is similar to a paraphrase except that a summary is shorter. When you summarise, you compress large amounts of information into the fewest possible sentences. To do this, you include only the main points and main supporting points, leaving out the details. ...
Express, concisely, the relevant details
When you are asked to summarise or present a summarisation, you should give in condensed form the main points or facts. All details, illustrations and elaboration are to be omitted.
Give a condensed version drawing out the main facts and omit superfluous information. Brief or general examples will normally suffice for this kind of answer.
Give a concise account of the main points of a matter, omitting details and examples.