"Students individually prepare summaries of the main points at the end of a given unit of content, lecture, reading assignment, or other, and then work in groups to compare, evaluate, and select the “best” summary."

"Summarizing a reading assignment or lecture requires students to figure out what the main ideas are, what the crucial details that support those ideas are, and what information is extraneous so that they can communicate the gist of the material in ways that they can remember. Best Summary is a good technique for helping students develop this valuable ability and to recognize that some information is better than others, even if all information is factually correct." — Learning Assessment Techniques, Barkley, EF and Major, CH, 2016