Precis Writing

What is the purpose of writing a Precis?

• Summarize a text
• Analyze a text
• Write a text
• Identify a text

What are the three appeals to use in a precis?

• Humor, Laughter, Sarcasm
• Logic, Emotion, Credential
• Credo, Terminus, Ellegy
• Ethos, Logos, Pathos

The phrase "in order to" is used to help explain the authors position regarding what?

• Purpose
• Claim
• Audience
• Support

How many sentences are in a Precis?

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

When writing a precis, what should be in quotation marks?

• Author's name?
• Publishing House
• Year
• Title

The claim must be

• An arguable statement 
• A complete sentence
• Written from your persepctive
• clear to the audience

When proving support for your precis, you should include how many rhetorical devices?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The following are all examples of a rhetorical device except?

• Definition
• Rubric
• Enumeration
• Compare and Contrast

Which of the following is an example of tone?

• Opinion
• Laughter
• Courageous
• Explanation

Another word for the claim is 

• Explain
• Interrogate
• Argument
• Device