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Summarising long documents

"Summarise this" is the worst thing you can ask of a long document: you get a perfectly correct summary that answers none of your questions.

You swap the summary for specific questions, and learn to spot when the AI has only read half of it.

Unit 2 · Writing with AI every day Part of the full course
7 min · 10 steps · beginner level

What you will be able to do afterwards

  • Ask about what affects you instead of asking for a summary.
  • Demand the exact sentence behind every point.
  • Read the signs that a summary cannot be trusted.

What is inside

The 10 steps of the lesson, in order. Each one works on a phone and marks itself.

  1. Summarising isn’t just reading less
  2. What to ask instead of “summarise this”
  3. The request that works
  4. The four-pass method
  5. Signs you can't trust it
  6. True or false
  7. Your summary request
  8. Check a summary
  9. Each document, its key question
  10. The honest limit
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The other lessons in this unit

Writing with AI every day: A normal week’s communication: emails, long documents, meetings, clients and your templates.

06 Writing and replying to emails The email that blocks your morning, started in thirty seconds. 08 Preparing and summarising meetings Arrive with your aims and objections clear, and leave with a useful summary. 09 Customer support Reply quickly, always well, and never sound like a robot. 10 Your reusable templates Turn what already worked into your own library with gaps to fill.

Before and after

06 Previous lesson Writing and replying to emails The email that blocks your morning, started in thirty seconds. 08 Next lesson Preparing and summarising meetings Arrive with your aims and objections clear, and leave with a useful summary.

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