What is Précis Writing?

The word Précis is in fact derived from the Praecism, a Latin word that refers to the meaning of cutting short. So in the other words it can be said that Précis is a short form of the passage in which the relevant and the essential details are kept and irrelevant and inessential details are excluded very carefully. This type of the writing is a type of the exercise that is very intellectual in the nature and also demands a sense of the discrimination that is very fair for the purpose of its execution. It demands the very clear thinking power of the selection, the discriminating abilities and the very good hold and the command of the vocabulary in order to handle the same very properly. There is no kind of the involvement of the omission of the certain part of the passage whereas it almost concentrates on the reproduction of the selected matter in the form of a paragraph. There must be a logical unity in this type of the writing. The Précis must be very easily intangible to the person who is not at all aware of the original one.

All this involves the passage concise making by keeping the meaning of the same very clear and at the same time very clear in all of the aspects and the concepts. The same is very generally one third of the length of the normal passage. Due to the big pressure of the number of the activities, it is very difficult for a business man to read the details of the various matters like the news, articles, books etc as the same is required by him or her to get the details of the lengthy messages in the precise form. The Précis Writing helps to have the basic know how of the complete passage in a comparatively short form and as a result of this, it becomes helpful in saving the both time and the energy of the person. There is no kind of the hard and the fast rule for having the very clear understanding of the important contents of the lengthy message and then to separate inessentials from the essentials. Still there are the rules that govern the writing of the précis. So it can be said that the précis must be written in a form of the very continuous passage where the sequence of the idea is very much maintained in a very careful way as according to the sequence of the ideas and the views that are in fact present in the original passage. It is written in the third person so even if the original one is in the first person, the first and the second person pronouns must not be used in the précis but the word we can be used if necessary at any of the situations that may arise as a common gender. The same must be very concise and at the same time very brief but the same must not be done on the cost of the meaning and the clarity of that specific passage. It must have the coherence and at the same time the logical unity that refers to the adhering to the sequence of the ideas in the original passage. The expressive and the very clear title must be given to the précis irrespective of the fact that the same has been asked for or not. The title of the précis must be such that it has the power to express the theme of the passage that it must express the theme in the closing and the opening of the passage. The same can be found after the very thorough reading of the passage as one needs to go through the passage with the full concentration and then try to know the theme of the passage. It should not be completely assertive or the interrogative sentence so it can be said that the titles must be very meaningful in the nature by being crispy, brief and also attractive in the nature of the working. The purpose of the title can also be served by the use of the right kind of the verb.

The title of the passage must give the central idea of the passage as the theme must be clear in the mind of the reader by reading the title of the précis. All this is on the one side of the work but for getting the same done at the ground level it must be allowed to follow the certain kind of the rules in the précis writing. The précis writing involves the very conscious effort and at the same time certain practice that is very rigorous in the nature of the working in the specific span of the time. It is in fact the kind of the art that can be handled only by the people who have very good writing skills and a very rich vocabulary. Few of the rules must be followed in the process of the précis writing that includes the reading of the passage in the very careful and the thorough manner in order to know the main and the solid theme of the topic around which the arguments of the facts and the passage involves. It is very necessary and at the same time very essential to re read the passage again and again and then the main ideas must be underlined to get the picture of the same in the mind of an individual or a reader. The highlighting must be done to recapture the ideas and eth facts and the same can be done by writing the same in the rough space. It is very necessary to restructure the points in a very readable and a very well connected paragraph. It is very necessary to maintain the specific sequence of the ideas that are present in the original passage as the précis must maintain the very exact sequence so that the specific original character of the passage is not at all distorted. It is very necessary and at the same time very essential to write the points in a fewer possible words by the use of the own language as at the same time it is very necessary to narrate the message that is present in the passage in a very concise form. The phrases and the clauses that are present in the passage can be replaced by the 1 appropriate single sentences or the group of the words and hence it can be said that the unnecessary repetition of the words must be avoided and the linking of all the sentences must be done by the use of the minimum words. The final message in the précis should be revised and recopied in the final précis. The re-reading and the revision of the passage are important to ensure that no important message in the passage is overlooked while reading it in the first place. So it can be said that these days it is environment of the précis writing as there is less time with the sender as well as with the reader so the required information is needed to be transferred from the one end to the other.