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Write the Precis of the following news items (Sourced from The Hindu dated March 5) in 77 words. The news item has 215 words. ——————————————————————————————————————.—————— Kerala passes resolution against offshore mining State argues that allowing offshore mining along its coast can have devastating consequences for Kerala’s …
Precis writing Creative Writing – 164 Study the article and post your precis in the comments. Our model summary has been posted underneath. Question aricle Egypt drifting towards bankruptcy Egypt has dug itself a massive hole of debt. On Friday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) …
Precis writing Creative Writing – 163 Study the article sourced from Scroll and post your precis in the comments. In your precis/summary, reduce the word count to one third of the original. Question aricle A very significant event in the history of the Andaman Islands, …
Precis writing Creative Writing – 162 Study the article sourced from Scroll and post your precis in the comments. In your precis/summary, reduce the word count to one third of the original. Question aricle On November 20, a group of 295 refugees arrived in south …
Creative Writing – 138 Precis Writing Text taken from ‘The Adivasi will not dance’ Question Passages Our aunt Panmuni-jhi began to eat regularly in restaurants after moving to Vadodara in 2000. In Bhubaneshwar where she had lived before Vadodara with her husband Biram and sons …
Creative Writing – 137 Precis Writing Precis concised to one third word count Question Passages During a busy A-shift—the shift from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.” at the Sadar Hospital, when I was simultaneously in charge of four departments: the outpatient, the emergency, the male …
Summarize to one third its length: A couple of miles along the path they met their two companions returning with lanterns in their hands. They had actually just been for a smoke, and had found out nothing about the firewood. They claimed it was being …
Summarize to one third its length: The widow living with the zamindar Sharadashankar’s family, in the big house at Ranihat, had no blood-relatives left. One by one they had died. In her husband’s family, too, there was no one she could call her own, having …
General rules: The precis should ideally have one third the number of words in the passage. All important facts of the original passage must be there in the précis. Use vocabulary and expressions in the précis to convey the sense of the main passage. Passage …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 22 Creative Writing – 87 Read the following write-up of 402 words and write its precis in 144 words Text sourced from the blog of Amitav Ghosh To read The Babarnama is constantly to ask oneself what could possibly have prompted …