What is a summary? The abstract is an academic text that reproduces in a logical and synthetic way the most important ideas of a written, oral or iconic text. Its elaboration implies reading, selecting and ranking the relevant information of the original work and then writing an independent writing that accounts for the essential (Arenas et al, 2014). It is not an easy task, because, according to Eco (1984), synthesizing is an art that requires a high capacity to abstract ideas and express them precisely.