Precis Writing Class Lecture
Precis Writing Class Lecture
A Prcis must fulfill following requirements 1. All Important/relevant Ideas must included 2. All unimportant/irrelevant ideas must be excluded 3. It must be in the form of continuous narrative Elements of Good Prcis 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. A good Prcis should give leading thoughts and general impression of the passage summarized. A good Prcis should be continuous and compact piece of prose. A Prcis should be clear, concise and complete in sense of original thoughts. The prcis should be written from the original authors point of view, without editori alizing. A good prcis is normally 1/3 of the original passage. Indirect Speech must be used. 3rd person pronoun must be used. Generally Past Tense must be used.
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English (Prcis & Composition) What should we avoid? 1. Avoid your own comments and other irrelevancies. 2. Avoid borrowing sentences and phrases from the original passage. 3. Avoid emphasizing the wrong points. 4. Avoid exceeding the prescribed length (1/3). 5 Words could be 5. Avoid Bad style of Grammar and Structure. 6. Avoid redundancies of expression. 7. Avoid introductory remarks, Illustrations, Examples and side-remarks. 8. Avoid Informal language. Method of Prcis Writing
1. Reading: First Reading: (i) Read every word slowly and carefully until you clearly understand the sense of the passage. (ii) Look up all unfamiliar words, phrases, and allusions (iii) Identify the dominating idea, the essential thought, of the passage. Ask if this idea were omitted, would the fundamental meaning of the passage be changed? (iv) Determine what emphasis and space to give the thought in each section; write a heading for each section. Second Reading: (i) Underscore with a pencil the important facts containing the essential thoughts. This is a process of differentiation between what is essential and what is not. Generally you will omit examples, illustrations, conversations, and repetitions. (ii) Reread your selections to see that they are wise and adequate. (iii) Determine if your underscoring expresses the main ideas. Final Reading: Rapidly and intensely reread the origin, dwelling on the important facts selected for a precis.
2. Title: We must give a striking title to our prcis. There are two different techniques to extract the central point as a relevant title. a) Extract it from first Paragraph or sentence. b) Extract it from last paragraph or sentence. 3. Now write Prcis with all rules and regulation listed above.
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