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Contracting Texts

By: James Drickey
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2
Date: March 1979

Summary: Drickey explains his technique of "contracting texts," a variation on précis writing, as a way of teaching the clear thinking essential to competent writing.

 

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