Getting comfortable with and distinguishing quotations, paraphrases, and summaries, the three ways we incorporate other writers' work into our own writing.
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Good evening class.
This is summarizing paraphrasing and quoting.
Welcome. So to be great to begin with, we have
direct quotations which are going to use most often when
you are citing your source material.
Direct quotes are convenient because they capture exactly what the
writer wanted to say and they're great for memorable pieces
of information, very poignant pieces of information, um ideas that
you just don't want to risk rewarding.
So in this case Law Zoos famous quote, the journey
of 1000 miles begins with a single step is cited
with his last name and also the quote is placed
into quotation marks.
Paraphrasing is putting a passage from source material into your
own words.
So this differs obviously from uh direct quoting in that
you're going to rearrange a bit and you're actually going
to substitute your own words for some of the key
words in the original passage.
So the paraphrases are going to be the same length
or maybe a bit shorter but make sure they are
also cited.
That means the author's name and page number of page
number is available.
For example there was a terrorist attack at the U.
S. Embassy in Caracas and several people were injured.
So if this were to come from a new source
and you wanted to paraphrase it, you might rearrange it
a bit saying terrorists attacked our embassy in Caracas Venezuela
and there were several injuries.
Again, you have the author's last name and the page
number and this is just a reminder.
Don't forget you're in text citation when you paraphrase.
That's the same rule for quotations.
It's going to be the same rule for summary.
All of these are examples of borrowed material, just three
different ways of presenting them.
So make sure you cite no matter which way you
choose. Here's another example.
So paraphrasing will often take complex material or highly scholarly
language and make it simpler because it's going to help
the reader understand the point more clearly.
And then it also shows that you understand the material
that you're borrowing.
So, um in the original source that says the need
for investors to earn a commercial return may put upward
pressure on prices, and that's just a fancy way to
say the need for profit is likely to push up
prices. Simple, Paraphrase, summarizing our third option will more closely
resemble the original writers thoughts, but focus only on the
main ideas.
So whereas paraphrasing may cover quite a bit of a
passage summary should be shorter, it really should, because you're
focusing only on key ideas and you want to make
make those ideas more concise.
So if you've ever seen the Disney film animated film,
101 Dalmatians, here's a quick and dirty summary of that
film. Brave mother and father rescue their kidnapped Children from
a serial killer who wears her victims skins kind of
silly, but you get the idea and this is a
little bit longer, a little bit more sincere passage from
a book called owl Moon.
It's about a young child and her father who go
out Howley.
In other words, they want to scope out owls at
night. And the original passes passage talks about what they
hear and how carefully they walk and how they look
at the owl and then the out looks at them
and it's very detailed as you might expect from A
piece of fiction, especially if it's one for Children.
But if you have to provide a summary notice right
away visually, this is 50 shorter than the original passage
and that's because it's focusing only on the main ideas.
And so it's going to eliminate extraneous adjectives.
Going to eliminate repetition, it's going to eliminate um you
know, the need for embellishments that you might expect in
a full length novel or story.
So it gets right to the point.
And again, we make sure that we're citing we have
the title Our Moon by jane lowland Ulan at the
very beginning of our summary.
So make sure you are including the citation or a
signal phrase.
So to wrap this up and keep the video nice
and short, you have the bubbles with quick and easy
references to what you need to remember for quoting.
That's of course, your direct um quoting requires your quotation
marks of course to let us know it's a direct
quote. You want to use this again for passages where
it's just not going to be beneficial to reduce it
to your own words.
You really want to keep the impact.
You want to keep the poignancy of that.
So repeat that word for word.
Paraphrasing, on the other hand, is going to be something
you can rewrite in your own words, It's probably going
to be a smaller version of the original information, but
it could also be equal to the length where summary
is going to definitely be shorter and it's going to
highlight the major parts of the information or the main