Precis Writing - 2003

[faisal anees]

hello aspirants,it is my first attempt on presis writing.please critically analyze it. i appreciate your complicity.
Make a precis of the given passage and give a suitable heading20) If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of a society. Its ah is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, not creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotle or Newtons of Napoleons or Washingtons of Raphaels or Shakespearcs though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, through such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to a great ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular aspirations. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them, ft teaches him to sec things as they arc, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical and to - discard what is irrelevant. It prepares him to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility. (John H. Ncwman)


WHY AN UNIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT FOR A SOCIETY.
It is true ,great men of art, leaders, warriors, statesmen, philosophers,poets and authors,the critic,expermentalist and the economist have no specific criteria to call them genius and not obligatory for them for any university attachment..But university training is at the centerpiece to uplift social life and to make better various walks of life. it promote society acumen, nationalism,and enthusiasm. It educates in order to score a clear conscious with developed thoughts and judgement. Further,it helps to interpret true spirit of things which leads to mastery over any subject with much ease and command.

[aj khan]

Originally Posted by faisal anees

WHY AN UNIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT FOR A SOCIETY.

A precedes university instead of AN
same can be observed in the paragraph given in the question paper

[faisal anees]

thank you Aj khan for let me know my mistake,i not only come to know my mistake but also able to get main theme why we use "A" rather than an before a vowel. i will appreciate to correct my mistakes because it lies in my history and now i am keen to purify myself for such mistakes.
regards
faisal anees