Summarizing and Paraphrasing

When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what?

• plagiarizing

• cheating

• writing

• paraphrasing

 

Paraphrase the phrase by putting it into your own words: harmless to pets

• nontoxic to animals

• damaging to dogs

• harmful to animals

• painless to pets

 

How are paraphrasing and summarizing different?

• Paraphrasing is longer and more detailed.

• A summary uses your own words, but a paraphrase does not.

• Paraphrasing and summarizing are exactly the same.

• A summary is closest to the original quote.

Paraphrasing should....

• remove specific details such as names, dates, titles, and locations

• create new sentence structures that rearrange and restate the original ideas

• leave sentences in the same order and replace certain words with synonyms

The word SUMMARIZE means...

• to tell why.

• to give a short version.

• to take it apart.

• to make your best guess.

 

Which best describes a SUMMARY?

• A really long detailed piece of writing.

• The main ideas and important details of a text.

• The entire text told in your own words.

• Your favorite part of a passage.

San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.

Which one best SUMMARIZES the passage?

• San Francisco has many neat things to do.

• It seldom snows in California.

• Many people choose to live in California.

• The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

Paraphrasing, or restating ideas in your own words, helps you check your understanding of what you hear and read. Read the passage. Which sentence  best RESTATES the ideas in the passage?  

"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."

• Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first television images were used thirty years earlier.

 

What should you do after you have written a paraphrase?

• Close the book you were copying from

• Write three questions based on the passage.

• Check your paraphrase against the original material

• Enclose your paraphrase in quotation marks

 

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words

• exact words from the text

• summary being shorter than the text

• including main ideas only