Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Paraphrase the phrase by putting it into your own words: a wonderful aroma

• a terrible stench

• an odor wonderful

• a wonderful aroma

• a pleasant scent

Paraphrase the phrase by putting it into your own words: the difficult assignment

• the challenging task

• the difficult assignment

• the hard assignment

• it's too much

PARAPHRASING means . . .

• writing down exactly what a passage says

• putting information

  into your own words

When you paraphrase, you should be sure to..

• Put quotation marks around it

• Put it in your own words and make it shorter than the original

• Put it in your own words, but keep it about the same length as the original

• Just change the order of the words around in the sentence

A summary should..(select all that apply)

• Be shorter than the original text

• The same length as the original text

• Include the main ideas

• Include all details

Read the passage below and choose the best paraphrase/summary:

Jet lag is a problem suffered by many flight attendants, pilots, and frequent flyers. When people travel rapidly across numerous time zones, as they do when flying long distances, they sometimes develop a condition called jet lag. These long trips disturb normal body rhythms. After a trip, travelers may have trouble falling asleep at night and staying awake during the day. Experts advise travelers flying eastbound to go to bed later than usual before traveling and those flying west to go to bed earlier than usual. These changes should help minimize the effects of jet lag.

• Flight attendants, pilots, and frequent flyers often suffer jet lag. Experts have many tips for travelers that will help prevent jet lag.

• Jet lag is a problem for people who fly a lot. To prevent jet lag, people can change the time they go to sleep before they take a trip.

• People who suffer jet lag have trouble falling asleep and staying awake. This is because people's body rhythms get thrown off by travel.

• Long-distance travel is unsafe because of a condition known as jet lag. Jet lag happens when people travel across many time zones.

What is a summary?

• a short explanation of a text

• a persuasive argument about a text

• a movie based off of a book

• a theme or universal lesson

When would you most likely summarize a book?

• when you want to forget a book you've read

• when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about

• when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book

• when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

You should write your summary

• in your own words with complete sentences

• in a secret language that you make up

• in one draft without revising

• in fragments without punctuation

What can you summarize?

• only novels

• only nonfiction

• only movies

• anything you read or watch