Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... THE SUMMARY 49. The Need of Condensation.--One of the commonest needs of everyday life is the presentation in condensed form of something that has elsewhere been said or written at greater length. To meet a popular demand we have in the daily papers special columns devoted to the presentation of the news of the day in a few sentences, magazines that sift out what is most interesting in other publications, the plots of plays or operas in programmes and librettos, and the precis of correspondence made by business houses and government bureaus. To writings of this condensed type many names have been given.1 Some of them have in some connections specialized meanings, yet all imply substantially the same thing; any one of them might be defined as a re-statement in reduced compass of what has been elsewhere expressed at length. 50. Value of Summaries.--It is as essential that you should know the basic structure of a paragraph or of a chapter or of a book as that you should be able to analyze 1 Abridgment, abstract, argument (e.g. of a play, opera, or canto, or book or part of an epic), bird's-eye view, brief, compend, compilation, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, general view, gist, glance, outline, plot, precis, summary, survey, synopsis are some of the commonest terms employed. With them are associated many other nouns, as well as verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; such as compiler and digester; sum up, epitomize, brief; synoptic; compendiously, succinctly, in other words. a sentence. In recitations and examinations, in your daily intercourse with others, in interviews or in letters for newspapers and periodicals, at public gatherings, you are, or later will be, called upon to state succinctly the gist of something that has elsewhere been written or pr...
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