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Examples of Précis Writing #1

Several times in the history of the world particular countries and cities or even small groups of people have attained a high degree of civilization. Yet none of these civilizations, important they were, have lasted and one of the reasons why they did not least was that they were confined to a very few people. They were like little oasis of civilization on deserts of barbarism. Now it is no good being civilized if everybody round about you is barbarous, or rather it is some good but it is very risky. For the barbarians are always liable to break in on you, and with their greater numbers and rude vigor scatter your civilization to the winds. Over and over again in history comparatively civilized people dwelling in cities have been conquered in this way by barbarians coming down from the hills and burning and killing and destroying whatever they found in the plains.

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Title: Civilization in historical period
Precis: In history a high degree of civilization was not lasted for long because it was confined to a very little number of people. They were surrounded by barbarism. Being in majority, barbarians ruined the civilization. They kill and destroy everything which they found civilized.

Examples of Précis Writing #2

A keen sense of humor is the hall mark of culture. When a person can crack a joke on himself, he raises himself at one in the estimation of his friends. There are people who can throw jokes at others, but never take one thrown against them. This one way traffic is not really a high sense of good humor. It is the essence of hamper that there should be give and takes in the process good humor is often the test of tolerance. A fanatic is incapable of good humor. He is tearing others to pieces fearing of getting himself torn all the time. Good humor defeats itself. If there is malice in it, or is indulged in to hurt others. A joke should never hurt otherwise it is no joke at all. A joke should make the person who makes it and the person who has to take it, laugh together. That is why tolerance and culture are the sources of every good joke.

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Title: A good sense of humor.
Precis: A great comedian is the one who can tolerate the joke on oneself. Good sense of humor cannot be one sided. If a joke maligns anyone’s character, hurt someone is not a good joke. A joke should be the one which makes everyone laugh together.

Examples of Précis Writing #3

The thing above all that a teacher should Endeavour to produce in his pupils if democracy is to survive, is the kind of tolerance that springs from an Endeavour to understand those who are different from ourselves. It is perhaps a natural impulse to view with horror and disgust all manners and customs different from those to such we are use. Ants and savages put strangers to death. And those who have never traveled either physically or mentally find it difficult to tolerate the queer ways and outlandish beliefs of other nationals and other times other sees and other political parties. This kind of ignorant intolerance is the antithesis of civilized outlook and is one of the gravest dangers to which cur over crowded world is exposed.
The educational system, ought to be designed to correct it, but much too little is done in this direction at present In every country nationalistic feeling is encouraged and school children are taught what they are only too ready to believe, that the inhabitants of other countries are morally and intellectually inferior to those of the country in which the school children happens to reside. In all this the teachers are not to blame. They are not free to teach as they would wish. It is they who know most intimately the needs of the young. It is they who through daily contact have come to care for them. But it is not they who decided what shall be taught or what the methods of instruction are to be.

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Title: Education system
Precis: A teacher should make students understand how to tolerate the ones who are different from them. The students are taught what they believe easily like, the people reside in other country are inferior to them. However, it is not because of teachers, they are not free enough, it is their mentor, parents and the guardian who set the instructions for them.

Examples of Précis Writing #4

Discipline is of the utmost importance in student life. If the young students do not obey their superiors and go without discipline, they will be deprive do much of the training they should have at this period and in future they will never be able to extract obedience from other sin the society. Society will never accept them as persons fit for commanding and taking up any responsible positions in life. So it is the bounder. Duty of all the students is to observe discipline in the preparatory stage of their life. A college without discipline can never impart suitable education to students.
The rule of discipline in the playground and the battle field as well plays a very important role. A team without discipline may not fare well in spite of good players for want of mutual understanding and cooperation. In any army everyone from the rank of the general down to the ranks of an ordinary soldier must observe discipline. In case a soldier does not obey his immediate superior the army becomes a rabble quite unfit for the achievement of the common ends of war. At first sight it may appear to us that discipline takes away individual liberty. But on analysis it is found that it does not do so, for liberty is not license. We find disciplined liberty at the root of all kinds of human happiness.

Sample Answer

Title: Importance of discipline
Precis: Discipline is a building block of student life. Students start observing discipline from their superiors. It plays an important role in a person's life either in a team or in a battle field. It does takes away individual liberty at the root of all kinds of human happiness.

Examples of Précis Writing #5

The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokers, but this nuisance is physical while the nuisance that the non-smokers cause the smokers is spiritual. There are of course, a lot of non smokers who don’t try to interface with the smokers and wives can be trained even to tolerate their husbands smoking in bed. That is the surest sign of a happy and successful marriage. It is sometimes assumed, however, that the non smokers are morally superior. But have missed one of their greatest pleasures of mankind. I am always scared and ill at ease when 1 enter a house in which there are no ash-trays. The room is apt to be too clean and orderly, the cushions are apt to be in their right placed and the people are apt to be correct and understood. And immediately I apt on the best behavior which means the same thing as the most think behaviors.

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Title: Psychology of smokers and non smokers
Precis: There are two categories of people in this world, first is one who smoke and second is who doesn't. Where the smokers are affecting physically themselves and others by smoking, non smokers are affecting themselves spiritually by not stopping them. Instead of being morally superior, they let them smoke in front of them for their pleasures.