Precis writing examples - 2
Write a precis of the following passage in about 100 words :
The price of any article depends chiefly upon the cost of labour and raw materials, though there are other expenses such as those of advertising and transport. Mass production has reduce the cost of labour to a minimum.
As new methods are invented and new manufacturing process developed, output increases more and more. The aim of every manufacture is to reduce costs and increase output.
Most of the articles of everyday use are mass-produced. The buttons on your coat, your shoe laces, pens, pencils and exercise books are all good and cheap because they are mass-produced. Cigarettes, to which most men and many women are willing slaves are manufactured and sold by the million.
Tobacco and paper are put into one part of a machine and endless cigarettes emerge at another. The long rolls of paper-covered tobacco are cut up into the right lengths and a moving belt carries them away.
Another machine counts the cigarettes and packs them into boxes. Form the time the tobacco is put into the machine until the buyer opens the box, no hand touches the cigarettes.
Another example of mass production is the morning newspaper. To see huge printing presses turning out and folding tens of thousands of newspapers, all exactly the same and all faultless, is an experience which can never be forgotten.
The printing press is one of man's cleverest inventions. The great machine seems almost alive. It does everything to the newspaper except write the original copy. It is thus the great newspaper is brought within the reach of the poorest of men.
Precis writing sample answer
Title:- Advantages of mass production
Mass production helps to bring down the price of goods by reducing the cost of labour. The buttons on our coat, our shoe laces, pens, pencils, exercise books as well as cigarettes as available good and cheap because they are produced in a large scale. In producing cigarettes only feeding the machine with tobacco and paper is done by human agency.
Cutting down to uniform size, counting, packing in boxes etc., are done by machines. In the production of newspapers the printing press does everything including turning out and folding. Only it cannot write what is to be printed.
