Précis Writing for Beginners, by Guy N. Pocock, M.A
by Guy Noel Pocock
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pocock, Guy Noel, 1880-1955
- Title
- Précis writing for beginners
- Credits
- Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- Abstracting
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 53680
- Release Date
- December 6, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PRÉCIS WRITING FOR BEGINNERS
- 2.FOREWORD
- 3.EXERCISES
- 4.PRÉCIS WRITING — What Précis Means — The Object of these Exercises — How to tackle a Précis — “Reported Speech”
- 5.No. 1.—Exercises in “Reported Speech”
- 6.Notes
- 7.No. 2.—George Oakes
- 8.Notes
- 9.No. 3.—The Cobra
- 10.Notes
- 11.No. 4.—The Two Lieutenants
- 12.Notes
- 13.No. 5.—The Black Republic
- 14.Notes
- 15.No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys
- 16.No. 7.—The Island
- 17.Notes
- 18.No. 8.—A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial
- 19.Notes
- 20.No. 9.—The Miser
- 21.Notes
- 22.No. 10.—The Boy Scouts
- 23.Notes
- 24.No. 11.—Child Labourers in 1836
- 25.Notes
- 26.No. 12.—The Museum, 300 B.C.
- 27.Notes
- 28.No. 13.—The Warning
- 29.Notes
- 30.No. 14.—Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days
- 31.Notes
- 32.No. 15—The Hut-Tax
- 33.Notes
- 34.No. 16.—The Mandarin
- 35.Notes
- 36.No. 17—Isaac Newton
- 37.Notes
- 38.No. 18.—The Battle of the Nile
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