Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
PARAPHRASING & SUMMARISING - Coggle Diagram
PARAPHRASING & SUMMARISING
PARAPHRASING:
Re-writing another person’s words so that the original meaning of their idea is maintained, but the structure and words you use are quite different to theirs.
GOALS
Not necessarily presenting the original text in an elaborate way, but in a way that flows with your
expression.
If you want to write very closely to the original text, then you may need to consider whether it’s worthy of a direct quote – or if you have to work more at expressing it in your own voice.
Presenting the ideas and information of others in your own voice.
WHAT POINTS SHOULD BE EXAMINED?
Subject plus action
How this action
is achieved
Why this action
occurs
Example to illustrate the point
WHAT TO AVOID?
Just changing words from the original
Keeping identical sentence structure
Transferring ideas sentence per sentence.
WHY NOT SUMMARISING?
Summarising is when you give an overview of the author’s key ideas as a whole, or provide an overview of a topic. A summary is usually shorter than the original piece of writing. It mightstate the ideas of a paragraph in one simple sentence. A summary tells you about the whole passage.
WHEN TO QUOTE?
Disgaree points
Include comparison of ideas
Highlight points
HOW TO LINK THE IDEAS?
Use authorial or information prominent