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Precis Writing. Please answer

The characteristics of a good precis may be outlined as follows:

1) A good precis is not merely a list of the main ideas of a passage. The ideas are to be organised and expressed in a logical sequence so that the precis reads like an original piece of composition.
2) A good precis should contain all the essential ideas in the original passage ,omitting non-essential detail, examples, etc. The ideas should be, as far as possible, in the same order as in the original. We should remember that in a precis one should not add anything that the original passage does not contain. There is no need to comment on the original matter either.
3) The language of precis should be clear, brief and precis, maintaining at the same time the style and spirit of the original.
4) A precis should be written in Indirect Speech.
5) A good precis should, as far as possible, be in the writer's own words.
6) It should not exceed or fall short of the length prescribed by too large a margin. Usually, the limit set for a precis is one third in length of the original. It should be in one paragraph.


Read the following extract from Ruskin Bond’s diary in which he portrays the silent miracles of nature and life’s little joys and regrets and write a precis on the same.


The first day of monsoon mist. And it’s strange how all the birds fall silent as the mist comes climbing up the hill. Perhaps that’s what makes the mist so melancholy; not only does it conceal the hills, it blankets them in silence too. Only an hour ago the trees were ringing with birdsong. And now the forest is deathly still as though it were midnight. Through the mist Bijju is calling to his sister. I can hear him running about on the hillside but I cannot see him.
Some genuine early- monsoon rain, warm and humid, and not that cold high-altitude stuff we’ve been having all year. The plants seem to know it too, and the first cobra lily rears its head from the ferns as I walk up to the bank and post office.The mist affords a certain privacy. A school boy asked me to describe the hill

station and valley in one sentence, and all I could say was: “A paradise that might have been.” Yesterday afternoon the leopard lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In the evening it attacked one of Bijju’s cows but fled at the approach of Bijju’s mother, who came screaming imprecations.
As for the leeches, I shall soon get used to a little bloodletting every day.
Other new arrivals are the scarlet minivets (the females are yellow), flitting silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds cannot conceal themselves, although, by remaining absolutely silent, they sometimes contrive to go unnoticed. Along come a pair of drongos, unnecessarily aggressive, chasing the minivets away. A tree creeper moves rapidly up the trunk of the oak tree, snapping up insects all the way. Now that the rains are here, there is no dearth of food for the insectivorous birds.

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Characteristics of a Precis

It is marked by clarity, precision, and brevity. It must be coherent. It is written in the own words of the precis writer and not written by picking words of the original write-up. It should have a logical order and flow, with well-connected sentences and paragraphs.

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