It summarises all the main ideas, arguments, and abstractions[1] from longer text.
The purpose of a critical précis is to make the original author's thesis more accessible by allowing readers to skip non-essential components of the original work.
Précis creation is commonly assigned in humanities and liberal arts classes.
The précis is written from an impartial third-person point of view, although personal analysis of a text can also be considered précis format.
These words exemplify the use of rhetorically accurate verbs.