The Précis Book: Or Lessons in Accuracy of Statement and Preciseness of Expression, for Civil Service Students, Self-Education, and Use in Schools (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Précis Book: Or Lessons in Accuracy of Statement and Preciseness of Expression, for Civil Service Students, Self-Education, and Use in Schools

It also occurred to the Author that it might be still more valuable to add some exercises which should extend the use of précis to general reading, and be available to all, without distinction of sex or age, who, from one cause or another, have not acquired the habit of marking, learning, and inwardly digesting what they read.

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Excerpt from The Précis Book: Or Lessons in Accuracy of Statement and Preciseness of Expression, for Civil Service Students, Self-Education, and Use in Schools

The First and Third Parts of this book are the first attempts which, as far as the Author is aware, have been made to extend the principles and uses of Precis-writing beyond 'the Office.'

The primary intention of this book is to provide thoroughly clear, trustworthy, and exhaustive instructions in writing Precis, for the use of those who are preparing for examinations for the Civil Service, and it is hoped that this intention will be found fulfilled in Part II. But the Author's experience has taught him that many persons of full age to be candidates for such employment are, by want of natural aptitude or defective education, incapable of making a short and accurate abstract of even a simple correspondence, though they may be fairly 'educated' in the ordinary sense of the word. It was and is, the Author fears, still a defect in the general system of education in England that boys are not taught to thoroughly understand what they read, or to express what they understand. There are still many boys able to construe any passage in the first book of the Æneid, and yet unable to write in short, simple English a narrative of the events it contains; many more who have 'done' a certain number of lines of Cicero every week for months, if not years, who are incapable of producing accurately one of his arguments in their own language. In many cases the cause of deficiency is not so much want of knowledge as want of power to use it, not so much that the boys do not think as that they have never been taught to express their thoughts.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.