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Rules of Precis Writing SET 2

  1. Examples, illustrations, and comparisons should be left out of the précis. Figures of speech should be removed and the ideas expressed in clear, direct language.
  2. Your own comments on the ideas of the précis are absolutely forbidden. Do not express any opinion, favourable, about the ideas in the original passage.
  3. Be very careful about the language you write. Mistakes of grammar and spelling are penalized as much in the précis as in other forms of composition.
  4. See that your précis is a piece of readable English and that its ideas can be understood even by a person who has not gone through the original. This is very important.