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The term "précis" makes many students uneasy. 

There is no need to let the term discourage you, for it only means a special kind of summary, and summaries are familiar to you. 

To summarise something you rewrite or retell its essentials and omit everything else.

This is a guide.

Very Rare hard to find book

This book has the name of the former owner written twice on the first two pages