Summarizing/Paraphrasing (Information Literacy)

Hey friends this week was also interesting and full of information literacy knowledge. Day by Day Information literacy subject is becoming interesting as well as difficult. Last week we had studied about APA REPORT. This week lecturer taught us about APA CITATION.

• Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries

• provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing
  
• refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing
• give examples of several points of view on a subject
• call attention to a position that you wish to agree or disagree with
• highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence, or passage by quoting the original
• distance yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own
• expand the breadth or depth of your writing

The lecturer highlighted again and again on :

Choosing text to integerate

Summarizing

Paraphrasing

Summarizing :

When you summarize, you put the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

TECHNIQUES OF SUMMARIZING :

• Instead of using many direct quotations in an essay, it is better to paraphrase and summarize your sources whenever possible.
• Use your own words.
• Do not use quotation marks.
• State only the most important idea or fact.
• Use as few words as possible

Paraphrasing :

 is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.

Quoting :

Quotation is the repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these words are sometimes abbreviated as "quote(s)".

• Quotations use a narrow segment of the source.
• They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
• Use quotes when the actual words are so integral to the discussion that they cannot be replaced.

"You must be the Change, you wish to see in this world. "