A précis is a shortening, in your own words, of a text of written work. You are to describe as accurately and briefly as possible the substance or main ideas contained in a text. One of the first (if ...

Précis writing is an art: Approach it in the right way Précis writing is basically presenting a passage economically with the central idea of the passage not disturbed at all. It is like explaining ...

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