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Done By:

Rawan Alabbas,
Sahl Altalhi,
Sami Alzakari
and Shaima Al Majed.

What is paraphrasing?
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing.
Paraphrasing tools
Examples.
Video.

Youre asked to use outside sources for a paper, and your professor

wants to see more summaries and paraphrases than direct


quotations.

But didnt your original source already write it best? How else

could you possibly rephrase this?

Practice!

Like any other skill, the more you summarize and paraphrase
effectively, the easier it gets.

Paraphrasing is a rewriting of text in your own words, used to clarify

meaning, and used to shorten a longer statement but keeps the main
ideas.

QUOTING

PARAPHRASI SUMMARIZI
NG

NG

Identical to the words


found

Constructing a passage Putting main


into your own words
ideas/points into your
own words

Other persons idea


and words

Use your own


sentences structure

Presents only the most


important ideas of a
source

Quotation marks must


be used

Attribute to your
original source

Attribute to your
original source

1. Replace some of the words with synonyms.


2. Make a positive verb into a negative verb.
3. Change active constructions to passive, and vice versa.
4. Change words into other parts of speech: adjectives into verbs, verbs into nouns, etc.
5. Combine sentences with connecting words.
6. Move parts of sentences around.

PASSAGE FROM BOOK


It is a truism of New York life that the city never

sleeps, and night revelers can be assured that


somewhere, something is going on no matter
what the hour.

PARAPHRASED PASSAGE
In New York, there is something to do all hours

of the night.

PASSAGE FROM BOOK


Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by

his evil brother Set, who cut Osiriss body into


pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis
found the body and put it back together by
winding linen bandages around it.

PARAPHRASED PASSAGE
Osiriss brother Set killed Osiris by cutting his

body into pieces, and Isis put the body back


together.

Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone elses work or ideas and passing them off
as your own

Colorado State University. (n.d.) Example summaries. Writing @ CSU. Retrieved from
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/documents/standsum/pop6a.cfm

Dollahite, N.E. & Haun, J. (2005). Sourcework: Academic writing from sources. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Hacker, D. (2009). Rules for writers (6th ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.

Kissner, E. (2006). Summarizing, paraphrasing and retelling. Newmarket, ON: Heinemann.

Safe practices. (2010). Purdue Online Writing Lab. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/03/

When to use direct quotations. (n.d.) Virgil Undergraduate Writing Center. Retrieved from
http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/virgil/?q=node/204

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