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Reading & Journal Blog
Sunday, 6 February 2005
How and When to Summarize, Paraphase, and Quote
I believe that you usually need to summarize a paper or essay when your audience or viewer has no knowledge of the topic. This helps them with the ability to overview the main concepts or ideas that are pertinent to understanding your essay. The difference between paraphasing and quoting is that when you quote you use the exact text of another author citing them as a source to help support your own ideas. You only need to quote someone else when you can't support your essay any other way.Quoting can be done directly and indirectly no matter which concept you use you must never quote without giving the originator credit for his/her material. Paraphasing is kind of like quoting but the only difference is that you can breakdown the original quoted material in your own words for a better understanding this technique is a great concept especially when you read literature which was written in earlier time periods the complexity of language is formatted differently since then literature has evolve tremendously as language. When paraphrasing you must also cite your source because even though you have changed the original text to a new more understanding version the original idea is not your own.

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