Samples: Lecture No: 15 Sample 1

Course Title: Composition and Communication Skills
Course Code: ENG-301
Course Credits: 3(3-0) Theory: 3 Lab: 0 Total: 03
Program: BSc. (Hons) Agriculture Sciences
Department: Humanities & Linguistics
Instructor: Prof: Mubashar Ali
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LECTURE NO: 15 Precis Writing

Samples
Sample 1
It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the
chief object of his thoughts just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them.
All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is n ot the main object of their lives. So all
healthy minded people like making money ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it;
it is something better than money.
A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay— very
properly so and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—till, his main mission
of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The clergyman's
object is essentially baptize and preach not to be paid fo r preaching. So of doctors. They like
fees no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated the entire object to
their lives is not fees. They on the whole, des ire to cure the sick; and if they are good doctors
and the choice were fairly to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him
and get it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their fee
second—very important always; but still second.
The Main Points:
1. Money making is a common attraction in life.
2. But it cannot be the principal aim of well-educated, intellectual brave persons.
Precis Summary:
Money-making is a common attraction in life. But it cannot be the principal aim of well
educated, cultured and brave man. A brave soldier prizes honour and victory more than his pay.
A good clergyman is more interested in the moral welfare of his people than his returns. A doctor
(good) values the care of his patient far more than his fees. Thus with all the well-educated,
intellectual persons, their work is first, money next.
Sample 2
Home is the young, who known "nothing of the world and who would be forlorn and sad, if
thrown upon it. It is providential, shelter of the weak and inexperienced, who have to learn as yet
to cope with the temptations which lies outside of it. It is the place of training of those who are
not only ignorant, but have no yet learnt how to learn, and who have to be taught by careful
individual trail, how to set about profiting by the lessons of teacher. And it is the school of
elementary studies—not of advances, for such studies alone can make master minds. Moreover,
it is the shrine of our best affections, the bosom of our fondest recollections, at spell upon our
after life, a stay for world weary mind and soul; wherever we are, till the end comes. Such are
attributes or offices of home, and like to these, in one or other sense or measure, are the attributes
and offices of a college in a university.
Precis Summary
Home shelters the young who are weak and unexperienced and unable to face the temptations in
life. It is a center of their elementary education and a nursery of sweet affections and pleasant
memories. Its magic lasts forever. A weary mind turn to it for rest. Such is the function of a
home and in some measure of the university.
Sample 3
Precis Summary
Notwithstanding its various defects English education has done great good to India. The ideas of
democracy and self-government are its gifts. Nursed on English education the Indian leaders
were inspired by the Western thought, culture and freedom struggles. They fought for and won
their motherland's freedom. Being spoken thought-out the world English is necessary for
international contact, trade, commerce and science. English is rich in literature; its master mind
cannot be neglected.
Sample 5
When we survey our lives and efforts we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and
desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that whole nature
resembles that of the social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that
others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and
beliefs has been passed on to us by other people though the medium of a language which others
have created. Without language and mental capacities, we would have been poor indeed
comparable to higher animals.
We have, therefore, to admit that we owe our principal knowledge over the least to the fact of
living in human society. The individual if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast
like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly imagine. The individual is what
he is and has the significance that he has, not much in virtue of the individuality, but rather as a
member of a great human community, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the
cradle to grave.
Precis Summary
Being social animals, human beings have their actions and desires bound up with society. In
matter of food, clothes, knowledge and belief they are interdependent. They use language created
by others. Without language their mental power would not grow. They are superior to beast,
because they live in human society. An individual life left alone from birth would grow utterly
beast like. So human society and not individuality guides man's material and spiritual existence.
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Trees give shade for the benefit of others, and while they themselves stand in the sun and endure
the scorching heat, they produce the fruit of which others profit. The character of good men is
like that of trees. What is the use of this perishable body if no use is made of it for the benefit of
mankind?
Sandalwood, the more it is rubbed, the more scent does it yield. Sugarcane, the more it is peeled
and cut up into pieces, the more juice does it produce. The men who are noble at heart do not
lose their qualities even in losing their lives. What matters whether men praise them or not?
What difference does it make whether they die at this moment or whether lives are prolonged?
Happen what may, those who tread in the right path will not set foot in any other. Life itself is
unprofitable to a man who does not live for others. To live for the mere sake of living one’s life
is to live the life of dog and crows. Those who lay down their lives for the sake of others will
assuredly dwell forever in a world of bliss.
PRECIS—A noble person, like a tree, make use of its life for the profits of others. Praise does
not matter to them till they die even they make each moment of their life for the sake of other’s
benefit. They don’t lose their quality as tree and lead their life in the right path and stay forever
in the world of bliss.
Title—A key to altruism
It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the
chief object of his thoughts just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them.
All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all
healthy minded people like making money ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it;
it is something better than money.
A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay—very
properly so and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—till, his main mission
of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The clergyman's
object is essentially baptize and preach not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like fees
no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated the entire object to their
lives is not fees. They on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and if they are good doctors and the
choice were fairly to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him and get
it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their fee second—
very important always; but still second.
Precis—Undoubtedly, money is the need of an hour however it is not the primary purpose for a
well-educated, intellectual, or brave man. Healthy minded people primarily, enjoy winning or
completing their work rather than aiming for making money from it. Be it soldier, who wishes to
win the battle first instead of getting paid. Be it clergyman, who preaches because he loves doing
it instead of getting paid for his preaches. Be it a doctor, who desires to cure his patient first.
Thus for all well educated person work comes first.
Title—Work or Money

English education and English language have done immense goods to India, inspite of their
glaring drawbacks. The notions of democracy and self-government are the born of English
education. Those who fought and died for mother India's freedom were nursed in the cradle of
English thought and culture. The West has made contribution to the East. The history of Europe
has fired the hearts of our leaders. Our struggle for freedom has been inspired by the struggles
for freedom in England, America and France. If our leaders were ignorant of English and if they
had not studied this language, how could they have been inspired by these heroic struggles for
freedom in other lands? English, therefore, did us great good in the past and if properly studied
will do immense good in future.
English is spoken throughout the world. For international contact our comrherce and trade, for
the development of our practical ideas, for the scientific studies, English-is indispensable
"English is very rich in literature," our own literature has been made richer by this foreign
language. It will really be a fatal day if we altogether forget Shakespeare, Milton, Keats and
Shaw.
Precis— In spite of its defect, English language and English education have done immense good
to India. English education gives an idea of democracy and self-government. Our leaders were
inspired by Western thoughts, culture and the struggles for freedom done by different countries.
Their heroic struggles give us freedom. Not only in the past English education is necessary for
making our future bright. Being spoken thought-out the world English is necessary for
international contact, trade, commerce and science. English is rich in literature and the work of
its great author cannot be ignored.
Title—Importance of English Education

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Course Title: Composition and Communication Skills

Course Code: ENG-301

Course Credits: 3(3-0) Theory: 3 Lab: 0 Total: 03

Program: BSc. (Hons) Agriculture Sciences

Department: Humanities & Linguistics

Instructor: Prof: Mubashar Ali

LECTURE NO: 15 Precis Writing

1. MAKE PRECIS AND GIVE SUITABLE TITLE

Title—A key to altruism

2. MAKE PRECIS AND GIVE SUITABLE TITLE

3. MAKE PRECIS AND GIVE SUITABLE TITLE

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