Colin Finnerty is Head of Assessment Research in the Oxford English Assessment Team at Oxford University Press. Colin and his team design and validate a range of English language tests, most recently the Oxford Test of English Advanced.
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The author argues that taking a text and changing, deleting and shortening it in order to provide the main points is a useful skill which can be practised in class.