SUMMARY

• Correctness, precision, and elegance are very important for good writing.
• Careful word order is important for clear as well as unambiguous writing.
• Pre-writing, writing and post writing are the three important processes involved in any good writing.
• Paragraph along with sentence is the basic unit of writing. Proper sequencing is very important here.
• Précis writing is generally done to reduce the given paragraph to one third of its length.
• For summary writing, it is important to condense and also arrive at the most important points.
• Note-taking is a means to filter out important points and organize the paragraph into main and sub-points.