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 Precis writing
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
--Shakespeare

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What we will learn in this video
• 1...WHAT IS A PRECIS?
• 2... ESSENTIAL OF A GOOD PRECIS:WHAT TO
INCLUDE IN A PRECIS?
• 3...FACTORS TO AVOID IN PRECIS
• 4... PROCEDURE OF PRECIS WRITING
• 5...STEPS TO MAKE A QUALITY PRECIS

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What is a precis?
• The world "PRECIS" is the French form of
English word"precise"which in the original
Latin meant "cut short".
• Rougly speaking,it means an 'abstract' or a
'gist' of a longer passage or ducoment.Thus
to make a precis of a given passage
amounts to extracting it's main points and
expressing them as clearly and in as few
words as possible.
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What to include in a precis?
• 1..A good precis should give the leading
thoughts and the general impression of the
passage summarized.
• 2..A good precis should be a continuous and
compact piece of porse.
• 3..A precise should be clear.
• 4..A precise should be precise, terse,and brief.
• 5..A precis should not be sketchy.
• 6.. Balance and Proportion
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Avoid and what to exclude from
a precis?
• 1..Avoid comments of your own
and other irrelevancies.
• 2..Avoid borrowing phrases and
sentences from the original.
• 3..Avoid emphasizing the wrong
points.
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Procedure of precis writing
• 1..Reading
• 2..Detailed study of the passage
• 3..Selection
• 4.. Writing rough drafts
• 5..How to find the Title?

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specific Guidelines

• 1..when a list of things is given in the original ,a general word

should be used to express idea.
• 2..It is useful to learn certain one-word substitution,that is,single
words which convey the meaning expressed in a group of words.
• 3.. Figurative language should be changed into a simple and direct
expression.
• 4..Several sentences which can be compressed into one.
• 5.. Eliminate from a passage
• 6..Indirect speech
• 7..person
• 8... sequence
• 9... passage expressing a Universal truth

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 Thank you
I hope this video will helps you alot
in your acedmic journey.
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