The act of condensing a text to its main points is called:

• A. Analysis
• B. Summarization
• C. Evaluation
• D. Synthesis

Answer: (B)

Summarization means condensing a text to its main points. It involves picking out the key ideas and essential information and restating them in a shorter form, without the extra details or examples. The goal is to capture what the author is conveying in a concise version that preserves the original meaning. This best fits the task because it focuses on reducing the text to its core ideas rather than analyzing its parts, judging its value, or creating something new from multiple sources. Analysis is about breaking a text into parts to examine how it works; evaluation deals with judging quality or value; synthesis combines ideas from different sources to form something new.