1. Summarize and Paraphrase
What’s the difference???

2. Paraphrase Use paraphrase to give your readers an accurate and comprehensive account of ideas from your source—ideas you will explain, interpret or disagree with in your writing.

3. What is a good paraphrase?
1. Is accurate: should accurately represent the author’s ideas. 2. Is complete: should tell the whole idea of author. 3. In your own voice: don’t just substitute synonyms for key words and leave the rest unchanged. Your words and voice should convey the information. 4. Should make sense by itself: like a summary, you should be able to read a paraphrase and feel it is done in sentences which flow together naturally.

4. A simple way to paraphrase Read through the passage very carefully and write notes of main points on a sheet of paper without looking at the passage, re-write it in your own words. Look at your re-writing and the original. Make sure you haven't copied the same words or sentence structure. Also be sure you've included all the information in the original passage.

5. Summarizing
You do summarizing when you want to tell the main idea of a longer work. The most important thing to remember in a summary is to carefully show when ideas are from another source and when they are your own. You will also need a variety of ways to say that. Here is a list of ways to clue the reader that you are still talking about the summary:
(any author’s last name) says, explains, reveals, notes, tells us, argues, persuasively illustrates, elucidates, clarifies, elucidates, expounds, communicates, conveys, claims, debates, disputes, discusses.

6. Guided Practice: Fold a piece of paper into quadrants
Guided Practice: Fold a piece of paper into quadrants. Work with a partner, using chapter 8, to complete this assignment. Work together to rewrite any passage three ways: plagiarizing, paraphrasing and summarizing parts of the chosen text on your own paper.
Items that go in each quadrant.
1. Original Text 2. Plagiarizing 3. Paraphrase 4. Summarize