Précis writing for beginners
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PRÉCIS WRITING FOR BEGINNERS
FOREWORD
EXERCISES
PRÉCIS WRITING
What Précis Means
The Object of these Exercises
How to tackle a Précis
“Reported Speech”
No. 1.—Exercises in “Reported Speech”
Notes
No. 2.—George Oakes
Notes
No. 3.—The Cobra
Notes
No. 4.—The Two Lieutenants
Notes
No. 5.—The Black Republic
Notes
No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys
No. 7.—The Island
Notes
No. 8.—A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial
Notes
No. 9.—The Miser
Notes
No. 10.—The Boy Scouts
Notes
No. 11.—Child Labourers in 1836
Notes
No. 12.—The Museum, 300 B.C.
Notes
No. 13.—The Warning
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No. 14.—Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days
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No. 15—The Hut-Tax
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No. 16.—The Mandarin
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No. 17—Isaac Newton
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No. 18.—The Battle of the Nile
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