Précis writing for beginners. Guy Noel Pocock

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664605931

      Table of Contents

       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

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       No. 3.—The Cobra

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       No. 4.—The Two Lieutenants

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       No. 5.—The Black Republic

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       No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys

       No. 7.—The Island

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       No. 8.—A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial

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       No. 9.—The Miser

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       No. 10.—The Boy Scouts

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       No. 11.—Child Labourers in 1836

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       No. 12.—The Museum, 300 B.C.

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       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