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By Arundathie Abeysinghe Lecturer in English International Aviation Academy SriLankan Airlines

Paraphrasing and summarizing

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Paraphrasing is a restatement of the meaning of a text using other words (instead of original words) Summarizing means taking the main ideas from a text and rewriting them in your own words in a brief manner.

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By Arundathie AbeysingheLecturer in English

International Aviation AcademySriLankan Airlines

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To write articles, project reports or dissertations you have to research and incorporate writings of others into your own texts

To avoid plagiarism and incorporate others’ ideas into your writing is known as paraphrasing and summarizing

Paraphrasing - changing the language of a text into your own

Summarizing – Getting rid of smaller details and leaving only the primary points

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First, using another’s language limits your learning; by paraphrasing and summarizing, the write-up becomes your own and you understand it better

Secondly, the target audience of the original write-up may be different from your own

Thirdly, write-ups of authors are considered as their property

Summarizing and paraphrasing avoids plagiarism

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Read the original text until you grasp its meaning Using your memory, write down the main points Restate the passage in your own words Replace keywords within the sentences with

synonyms or phrases with similar meanings Compare the original passage with your paraphrase Paraphrased material should not be shorter than the

original passage A paraphrase does not condense material

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Pick out important information and highlight the key words Delete irrelevant, unimportant and repeated information Select a topic sentence or create a topic sentence Summaries are shorter than a paraphrase A summary should be about one third the length of the

original article Extract information from the original article and write in

your own words Avoid copying phrases and sentences from the article

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Thank you!