3. A summary...
● establishes background or overview
● describes knowledge about a topic
● determines the main ideas
4. ● use another’s words to support your
argument
● point out a specific argument
● highlight particularly powerful phrases
● compare specific points of view
Quotes
5. Proper use of Quotes
Signal words,“Quoted text.”
“Quoted text,” signal words.
6. Proper use of Quotes
[edits for grammar or clarification go in
brackets]
7. Buzzfeed News reported,“the decision
[was] a victory for the [Trump]
administration.”
“The decision is a victory for the
administration,” according to an article
by Buzzfeed.
8. ● clarifies a short passage
● avoids overusing quotations
● explains a point when exact wording
isn’t important
● explains the main points of a
passage
● reports numerical data or statistics
Paraphrasing
9. 3 Steps for Paraphrasing
1. sentence structure
2. word forms
3. synonyms
10. Paraphrase this using the 3 steps:
“In order to solve climate change, we
must increase awareness of the issue.
11. Paraphrase this using the 3 steps:
“Even though everybody has
underlying biases, most are not even
aware of them.”
12. Paraphrase this using the 3 steps:
“In the past, people thought that
consciousness originated in the heart.
Scientists now know that this is not
true, and that consciousness actually
comes from the brain”
