Precis Writing for Beginners (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Guy N. Pocock

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332180523 ISBN 13 : 9781332180523

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Master the essentials of concise writing with clear, exam‑ready guidance. This practical guide teaches you how to turn long texts into tight, readable summaries using proven rules and careful planning. Perfect for students and professionals who want to sharpen precision and clarity.

This book walks you through a repeatable process: read for the whole story, mark what matters, and reconstruct it in readable form. It emphasizes consistency, structure, and the disciplined use of reported speech to keep summaries accurate and concise.

• How to identify essential points and avoid filler in every passage


• Steps to underline, condense, and reassemble material into a short, coherent narrative


• Rules for tense, perspective, and third‑person usage to keep precision consistent


• Practice with guided exercises that mirror real‑world tasks

Ideal for readers who want a solid, approachable foundation in precis writing and for anyone preparing for exams or professional writing tasks.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Precis Writing for Beginners

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 precis 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 precis 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 precis writing for concentration of thought and expression.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332180523
• ISBN 13: 9781332180523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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