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Condense long articles, essays, and research papers into clear summaries in seconds. Choose your length and format, then review, cite, and use — all for free.
Turn dense reading into clear, usable notes — without losing the key points
Condense journal articles, textbook chapters, and reports into a short overview so you can grasp the main argument before deep reading.
Choose a flowing paragraph summary for prose, or clean bullet points for revision notes, presentations, and quick reference.
Pick Short for a one-line gist, Medium for a balanced overview, or Detailed when you need the supporting points retained.
Build literature-review notes and reading logs in minutes, leaving more time for analysis and writing your own argument.
Summaries are written in clear, neutral academic English, ready to adapt into your own words with a proper citation.
No signup, no cost, and your text is not stored. Summarise as many passages as you need, whenever you need them.
Copy in the article, essay, or passage you want to summarise. The tool handles up to 1,500 words at a time.
Select Short, Medium, or Detailed, and decide between a paragraph or bullet points to match how you will use it.
Read the summary against the source, add a citation, then copy it into your notes or draft with one click.
Our expert academic writers can research, summarise sources, and write your assignment with proper referencing throughout.
Get Writing HelpSummarising is the skill of restating the main ideas of a source briefly and in your own words. In academic work it lets you show that you understand the wider literature, compress long arguments into a manageable form, and give your reader the essential points without reproducing the whole text. A good summary captures the author's central claim and key supporting points while leaving out examples, repetition, and minor detail.
Summaries appear throughout academic writing. You use them in a literature review to outline what previous researchers found, in an essay to introduce a source before analysing it, in reading notes to record the gist of an article, and in an abstract to condense your own work. Summarising is broader than paraphrasing: a paraphrase restates a short passage at roughly the same length, whereas a summary reduces a longer text to its essentials.
Read the whole source first and identify the main argument. Note the key supporting points, then set the original aside and write the summary in your own words so you are not simply lifting phrasing. Keep it proportionate to how much weight the source carries in your work, stay neutral rather than adding your own opinion, and check the summary back against the original to confirm you have not distorted the meaning. Our tool gives you a strong first draft, but the final wording should be yours.
An AI summariser is a study aid, not a substitute for reading or for your own analysis. Do not paste a machine summary straight into an assignment as though it were your own critical work, and never use it to skip engaging with a source you are expected to have read. Summaries can occasionally miss nuance or over-simplify a subtle argument, so always verify important points against the original text before you rely on them.
Even though a summary is in your own words, the ideas belong to the original author, so it must be referenced. Failing to cite a summarised source is still plagiarism. Add an in-text citation and a full reference in your required style — you can build accurate references with our paraphrasing tool and other free study tools. Used responsibly, summarising helps you read more efficiently and write with a clearer command of the literature.