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    The document provides guidelines for writing a précis, including identifying the central idea of the passage, highlighting important points, removing non-essential information, and ensuring the précis follows grammatical rules and style of the original. It also provides an example précis analyzing the key elements of an earthquake passage in under 115 words.

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    The document provides guidelines for writing a précis, including identifying the central idea of the passage, highlighting important points, removing non-essential information, and ensuring the précis follows grammatical rules and style of the original. It also provides an example précis analyzing the key elements of an earthquake passage in under 115 words.

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    The document provides guidelines for writing a précis, including identifying the central idea of the passage, highlighting important points, removing non-essential information, and ensuring the précis follows grammatical rules and style of the original. It also provides an example précis analyzing the key elements of an earthquake passage in under 115 words.

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    By Dr. Md.

    Momin Uddin
    Associate Professor
    Department of English
    Jagannath University
    Dhaka - 1100
    How to Write a Précis

    Précis in the making


    When one is writing a précis, one should take care
    of a few essential points. The first thing is that one
    needs to convey the general idea of the argument
    with absolute clarity. The second thing that you
    need to do is to make sure that all the important
    points of the original passage are included in the
    précis. Lastly, make sure that the language of the
    précis is clear and concise, and follows the rule for
    correct diction.
    How to Write a Précis
    Précis in the making
     The following rules are general guidelines you should follow while writing a précis:
     Closely read the passage, and identify the central idea of the passage. It is vital to
    identify the general idea of the passage and incorporate it in one’s précis.
     In order to understand the passage clearly, make sure that you read the passage
    closely, and give it a couple of reads before you start writing the précis.
     Highlight the most important points in the passage, and make notes. Leave out all
    non-essential information from the précis.
     Provide an apt heading to your précis.
     You should try to arrange the points in most logical order, and ensure that the order
    of thought is the same as the original.
     The grammatical rules you need to follow while writing a précis are: write it in third
    person, write it in indirect form, and write it in the appropriate tense.
     Make sure you review your rough draft, remove what is just redundant, and ensure
    that you have made no language related errors.
     Before writing your précis, make sure you have a glance over the original to make
    sure you have not missed anything.
     Finally, a wise policy would be a count of the words of your précis and put them
    down in a bracket at the end.
    There is an enemy beneath our feet - an enemy more deadly for his complete
    impartiality. He recognizes no national boundaries, no political parties. Everyone in the
    world is threatened by him. The enemy is the earth itself. When an earthquake strikes,
    the world trembles. The power of a quake is greater than anything man himself can
    produce. But today scientists are directing a great deal of their effort into finding some
    way of combating earthquakes, and it is possible that at some time in the near future
    mankind will have discovered a means of protecting itself from earthquakes. An
    earthquake strikes without warning. When it does, its power is immense. If it strikes a
    modern city, the damage it causes is as great as if it has struck a primitive village. Gas
    mains burst, explosions are caused and fires are started. Underground railways are
    wrecked. Buildings collapse, bridges fall, dams burst, gaping crevices appear in busy
    streets .If the quake strikes at sea, huge tidal waves sweep inland. If it strikes in
    mountain regions, avalanches roar down into the valley. Consider the terrifying statistics
    from the past 1755: Lisbon, capital of Portugal - the city destroyed entirely and 450
    killed. 1970: Peru: 50,000 killed. In 1968 an earthquake struck Alaska. As this is a
    relatively unpopulated part, only a few people were killed. But it is likely that this was
    one of the most powerful quakes ever to have hit the world. Geologists estimate that
    during the tremors, the whole of the state moved over 80 feet farther west into the
    Pacific Ocean. Imagine the power of something that can move an entire subcontinent!
    This is the problem that the scientists face. They are dealing with forces so immense that
    man cannot hope to resist them. All that can be done is to try to pinpoint just where the
    earthquake will strike and work from there. At least some precautionary measures can
    then be taken to save lives and some of the property. (330 Words)'
    How to Write a Précis
    Based on the above paragraph, we-arrive at the
    following theme sentences for the four paragraphs:
     Earthquake - the deadly enemy of mankind.
     Damage caused by an earthquake in general.
     Damage caused by an earthquake-in particular,
     What can the scientists do?
     The above four theme sentences can be developed
    into the following outline:
    How to Write a Précis
     Earthquake - the deadly enemy of mankind.
     Earthquake strikes all without a distinction of national boundary or political
    affiliation.
     The power of a quake is greater than that of a man-made weapon of destruction.
     Scientists are trying to find out means to combat earthquakes; they will find some
    way to protect themselves from earthquakes.
     Damage caused by an earthquake in general:
     Strikes without warning.
     Modern city when struck reduced to a primitive village.
     Damage caused by an earthquake in particular.
     Quake strikes plains, seas and mountains causing all round destruction.
     In 1755, Lisbon destroyed, 450 killed.
     In 1970, Peru struck, 50,000 killed.
     What can the scientists do?
     In 1968, Alaska hit, subcontinent moved 80 feet into the Pacific Ocean.
     Scientists cannot resist the powerful earthquake.
     They can predict the place of origin of the quake so that precaution can be taken to
    save man & property.
    How to Write a Précis
     Based on the above outline, we can make the following rough draft:
    Earthquake- The Great Destroyer
     Earthquake is the deadly enemy of mankind. Earthquake strikes all
    without a distinction of nationality or political affiliation. The power
    of a quake is greater than that of any man-made weapon of
    destruction. An earthquake strikes mankind without a warning. A
    modern city when struck is reduced to a rubble. A quake strikes
    plains, seas and mountains causing all round destruction. The quake
    struck Lisbon in 1755 killing 450; Peru in 1970 killing 50,000; Alaska
    in 1968 moving it 80 feet into the Pacific Ocean. Scientists are trying
    to find out means to combat earthquakes and they are able to
    predict at least where the earthquake will hit so that precaution can
    be taken to save man and property from destruction.
     As the number of words in the rough draft is more than required we
    shall have to reduce it further without reducing the ideas.
    How to Write a Précis
     The final draft would look as follows:
    Earthquake - The Great Destroyer
     Earthquake is the mankind's deadly enemy. Earthquake strikes
    all without a distinction of nationality or political affiliation.
    The power of a quake is greater than that of any man-made
    weapon of destruction. An earthquake strikes mankind
    without a warning. A modern city when struck is reduced -to a
    nibble. A quake strikes plains, seas and mountains causing all
    round destruction. The quake struck Lisbon in 1755 killing 450;
    Peru in 1970 killing 50,000; Alaska in 1968 moving it 80 feet
    into the Pacific Ocean. Scientists are trying to find out means
    to combat earthquakes, to predict the origin of the quake so
    that precaution can be taken to save man and property from
    destruction.(115 words)

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