P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life, 3/e
Robert S. Feldman,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
ISBN: 0073126403 Copyright year: 2007
Summary and Paraphrasing
When you are incorporating outside material into your own work (such as for a research paper) you will need to know how to summarize and how to paraphrase.
In both instances, you are restating someone else's ideas in your own words. What's the difference?
When you summarize, you condense the original material — you use less words to cover the same idea.
When you paraphrase, you use roughly the same number of words to restate the original idea.
The most important thing to remember, whether you are summarizing or paraphrasing, is that you must not borrow too much from your original source. You must use your own words and your own phrasing.
If you do not change enough of the vocabulary and sentence structure of the original passage, you have plagiarized.Self-assessment exercises to confirm what you know about summary vs. plagiarism
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