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Assignment:
If you already read this book will be gd for me, if not u hv to read, you will hlp me a lot with that.......A précis, as I am defining it, differs from a book review in that it does not evaluate or critique the author's work. A précis simply states a book's thesis or argument and summarizes its content.
The basic model you should follow in writing your précis is as follows:
1) At the top of the précis should be the author's name, the book title, place of publication, name of publisher, and year of publication. For example, Ware, Susan. Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote (Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2019)
2) First paragraph: an overall statement on what the book is about; how the author structures the book (for example, are chapters chronological or does each chapter address a different theme); and a brief statement of the author's thesis or argument. You should think of the thesis as the author's purpose for writing the book (the author often states his or her purpose explicitly in the preface or
introduction).
3) Each succeeding paragraph should summarize the content of the monograph. For Why They Marched, you can summarize each chapter of 1-12
4) At the end of the précis you may want to offer a sentence or two conclusion that ties together all the material you have summarized and make some statement about the book's value for a reader interested in learning more about the topic the book addresses.
Make sure this is in your ovvn wrds and ideas, as it will be submitted to plgiarism detection software.
If you cite specific passages from the book, you can use any recognizable cittion style (MLA, APA, Chicago) that is consistent throughout.