an ever increasing list of chemical termsDescripción completa
Poetry maggie and milly and molly and may ee cummings analysis form & technique
formal writingDescripción completa
Through an email conversation between Allen, Forst and Haugaard, this article explores the relationship between the dyads power and reason, justice and domination. In much of the literature reason ...
industrial engineering
Full description
sources onlyFull description
none
Expectations of class and gender within the fixed social structure of the Regency Period.
Full description
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT | DEPARTMENT
OF
STUDENT SERVICES | R YERSON YERSON UNIVERSITY
1
PARAPHRASING AND SUMMARIZING What is paraphrasing? Why is it done?
•
•
What is summarizing? Why is it done?
•
•
When do you quote? When do you paraphrase? When do you summarize?
•
• •
•
What are some helpful techniques for paraphrasing?
•
Using one’s own words to convey someone else’s ideas. Enables the writer to present only the relevant information and to tie it logically to the context.
Using one’s own words to give the thesis and main supporting points of a text. Enables a reader to see at a glance the main points and to judge whether more detailed study of a text is required.
Quote when the original words are famous or express the idea in the best possible way. Quote famous authorities. Paraphrase when you want to answer a specific question, using information from a reference source. Summarize when the main points of an entire text are needed.
Be careful with synonyms. For example, the underlined words in the following sentence: “The ability to manage stress is one of the most important skills required of modern people.” can be replaced with synonyms to give: The capacity to control stress is one of o f the most crucial abilities needed by modern people.
However, the the thesaurus also gives other synonyms for those words, leading to nonsense such as: The endowment to rule stress is one of o f the most momentous dexterities coerced by modern people. If you look up an unfamiliar synonym, be sure to check it in in a good learner’s dictionary dictionary before using using it.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT | DEPARTMENT
•
OF
STUDENT SERVICES | R YERSON UNIVERSITY
2
pack or unpack noun phrases. For example, change: agricultural subsidies to: subsidies for agriculture or change: size of the screen to: screen size
•
change nouns and adjectives to verbs and verbs to nouns or adjectives. For example, change: To maintain your pet’s health, you cannot dispense with good medical care. to: Good medical care is indispensable for the maintenance of your pet’s health.
What are the main steps in summarizing?
• • • •
What should be omitted when you summarize?
• • • • •
How long should a summary be?
•
Read and study the original; make an outline of main points; remove the original and write the summary from the outline.
