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Précis writing for beginners - Guy Noel Pocock
Guy Noel Pocock
Précis writing for beginners
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD
EXERCISES
PRÉCIS WRITING
What Précis Means
The Object of these Exercises
How to tackle a Précis
Reported Speech
No. 1.—Exercises in Reported Speech
No. 2.—George Oakes
No. 3.—The Cobra
No. 4.—The Two Lieutenants
No. 5.—The Black Republic
No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys
No. 7.—The Island
No. 8.—A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial
No. 9.—The Miser
No. 10.—The Boy Scouts
No. 11.—Child Labourers in 1836
No. 12.—The Museum, 300 B.C.
No. 13.—The Warning
No. 14.—Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days
No. 15—The Hut-Tax
No. 16.—The Mandarin
No. 17—Isaac Newton
No. 18.—The Battle of the Nile
FOREWORD
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The object of this little book is to teach précis writing from the very start. It has been found from experience that the average boy who in the Lower Fifth Form starts making précis of Government Blue Books and Collected Correspondence, will flounder about for a whole term without understanding what he is really expected to do.
The following exercises are progressive and the rules of strict précis writing are learnt one by one. The exercises are really very simple parodies of Government Reports, &c., such as a boy will have to deal with in the higher forms and the Army Examinations. They are arranged in groups, e.g. Reports, Correspondence, Trials, Ships’ Logs, and so forth. After working through the series a boy should be perfectly competent to tackle the real thing.
Incidentally, there is no better training than précis writing for concentration of thought and expression.
G. N. P.
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
April, 1917.
EXERCISES
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PRÉCIS WRITING
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What Précis Means
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A précis is the essence of a longer story of any kind. You take your story and ‘boil it down’, so as to get rid of all the parts that do not really matter; you then collect what is left, and put these points together in a short concise ‘summary’. But the result must not be a ‘list’ of important points, or a series of ‘jottings’. It must be the same story told clearly and readably, in a very much condensed form.
For instance, you may have to make a précis of a long pile of letters dealing with some particular subject; or perhaps the account of a trial; or a long report written by one individual. It doesn’t matter what the longer ‘story’ is. What you have to do is to read it through, extract all the parts that matter, and put them down in readable form.
The Object of these Exercises
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Now précis writing is unlike free English composition. It is much more exact and scientific; and it must be written according to certain definite rules. It is no use trying to learn all the rules at once; you will learn them one by one, and without trouble, as you work through the following exercises.
These exercises are not the real Government Blue Books, reports, trials, &c., that you will have to tackle later on. They are all ‘made up’. But they