Precis Writing

Creative Writing – 138 Precis Writing Text taken from ‘The Adivasi will not dance’ Question Passages Our aunt Panmuni-jhi began to eat regularly in restaurants after moving to Vadodara in 2000. In Bhubaneshwar where she had lived before Vadodara with her husband Biram and sons … Read more

Creative Writing – 137 Precis Writing Precis concised to one third word count Question Passages During a busy A-shift—the shift from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.” at the Sadar Hospital, when I was simultaneously in charge of four departments: the outpatient, the emergency, the male … Read more

Summarize to one third its length: A couple of miles along the path they met their two companions returning with lanterns in their hands. They had actually just been for a smoke, and had found out nothing about the firewood. They claimed it was being … Read more

Summarize to one third its length: The widow living with the zamindar Sharadashankar’s family, in the big house at Ranihat, had no blood-relatives left. One by one they had died. In her husband’s family, too, there was no one she could call her own, having … Read more

General rules: The precis should ideally have one third the number of words in the passage. All important facts of the original passage must be there in the précis. Use vocabulary and expressions in the précis to convey the sense of the main passage. Passage … Read more

Read the following write-up of 402 words and write its precis in 134 words +10 words =144 words   Write-up … To read The Babarnama is constantly to ask oneself what could possibly have prompted a man in Babar’s position to write his memoirs. Historically … Read more

Precis / Summary writing with tips  .. Read the following passage having 227 words. Write its précis in one third its word count, i.e, 76 words. You may exceed the word count by five. —————————————-.————————- PASSAGE .. Tuesday is the U.N.’s World Day Against Trafficking in … Read more

Summary / Precis writing … The following passages have a total of 398 words. Write its summary / Precis in less than 140 words. Passage …. France returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some … Read more

Summarize the following. The following write-up has 409 words. Write its summary / Precis in not more than 145 words. ———————————————. The passage.. It was after Bourbaki’s defeat in the east of France. The army, broken up, decimated, and worn out, had been obliged to … Read more