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Originally Posted by gintino
Agreed.
Can you kindly share your precis?
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I don't remember my exact precis but the salient features are:
1. I wrote in third person (author).
2. I didn't mention all those detailed examples (Tomahawks etc.) in my precis.
3. I didn't mention 'George' by name and just wrote something like 'local resident'.
4. I summed up George's lengthy description of what village people do in off season in a line.
5. I mentioned the Game but didn't go into the details of the types of entertainment, towards the end of the precis.
6. My title was simplistic: 'A Trip to Cherokee'.
7. Overall, the precis was in past tense.
The mistakes I made are:
1. I called John a 'friend'. In my opinion, there was no reason/need. I could just write 'the author and John' or even better not mention John at all, as he wasn't an important part of the passage.
2. I included in the end something like 'John looked forward to more exciting visits in the future'. Again, I think this information was not important to precis.
3. My precis was 124 words.
4. There are other small issues that make my precis weak at places.