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 ...

I frequently tackle the wordiness in my students’ writing by imitating my eighth-grade English teacher, Dr. Earley. Like him, I lead students through the exercise of a précis. We spend about 15 ...

Writing is of two types when adjudged on the parameter of a writer’s presence in his writing: subjective and objective. The subjective writing is tinged with a writer’s own discretion and emotions ...