👻🍂 Summarizing & Paraphrasing 👻🍂

What is the primary goal of paraphrasing a passage?

• To express the ideas in your own style while retaining the original meaning.
• To include personal opinions in the reworded text.
• To change the original meaning of the text.
• To summarize the text in a shorter form.

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When summarizing, you should focus on the '______ picture.'

• big
• small

• color

• drawing

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A summary is much ______ than the original text.

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a good summary?

• It includes every detail from the original text.
• It captures the main ideas.
• It is much shorter than the original text.
• It reflects the original text's ideas without personal opinions.

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What should a summary ideally reflect?

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What does paraphrasing involve?

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What is a key difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?

• Summarizing includes personal opinions.
• Paraphrasing keeps the details but expresses them in a new way.
• Paraphrasing is only used for quotes.
• Summarizing is longer than the original text.

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Which of the following statements best describes paraphrasing?

• It focuses solely on the author's opinions.
• It involves summarizing the main ideas of a text.
• It is the act of rewording a specific passage while maintaining the original meaning.
• It requires adding personal interpretations to the text.

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Which of the following statements about effective paraphrasing is true?

• It requires adding personal opinions.
• It is always shorter than the original text.
• It uses different words and structure while retaining the original meaning.
• It changes the original meaning of the text.

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Mastering summarizing and paraphrasing enhances your ability to communicate ______. (a)   ​ poorly

• effectively
• poorly

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