Summarize, Paraphrase and Quote

SUMMARIZE, PARAPHRASE

AND QUOTE

ENG 1014 English for Business

OBJECTIVES

 To improve students’ note-taking skills

 To enable students to thoroughly understand

the materials they read

 To guide students in identifying the main

gist/issue of the text

 To introduce students to basic research skills

SUMMARY

 What is a summary?

- A brief restatement of the passage in your

own words

- Recaps the main claim the author makes

- The length depends on the purpose of

writing (one sentence to around one-fourth

the length of the original text)

SUMMARY - EXAMPLE

One characteristics of effective learning is the area of discussion

among classmates. Such interaction is potentially an ideal place for

students to form a learning community, but instructors should not

assume that all students will participate or learn from this form of

collaboration, particularly in online courses. Our recent research

demonstrated that student progress in economics classes result in

better performance by classroom students than by online students. The

research indicates that the differences were due to access to the

instructor and to cooperation with fellow students in classroom courses,

facets that are unavailable to online students.

Summary: Research by Chizmar and Walbert (1999) showed that

students in classroom-based economics courses achieved more than

online students in the same course. The research revealed that estudents had less interaction with the instructor and fewer opportunities

to collaborate with classmates.

Source: Chizmar, J.F., & Walbert, M.S., 1999. Web-based learning environment guided by principles of good teaching

practice.

Journal

of

Economic

Education,

30(3),

pp.

248

–

250.

[online],

Available

at

http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/pdffiles/Summer99/chizmar.pdf [Accessed 16 April 2014].

SUMMARY

 Characteristics of a good summary

(a) Consistent – maintain author’s argument

without distorting the meaning

(b)...