Lesson 7 of 20

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.

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