Is paraphrasing the same as summarizing?

Answer 1

Paraphrasing is when you make a summary based upon something you have read, seen, or heard about using your own words. To quote something is to take words directly from a book, movie, or other source and restate them. So in other words, paraphrasing is your own words and quoting is just mentioning other people's words.

Answer 2

It can mean something similar, yes. A paraphrase is usually saying the same thing in about the same number of words (just different ones), whereas a summary is saying the same thing in fewer words.

Answer 3

A paraphrase attempts to use different words to say the same thing. In other words you try to express yourself in a different way.

Summarizing gives a brief description of a much longer article.

Answer 4

Summarizing and paraphrasing is when you read a paragraph and then write about what you just read in your own words. If your going to use quotes keep them to a minimum and use mostly your own words. Its kind of like a movie synopsis that tells you what the movie is about so you can decide whether you want to see it or not so you don't waste your time on something that won't be worth it to you. In your case read whatever you did your summary on.

Answer 5

Quoting is when you are getting a sentence of someones speech and taking it out meaning summarizing that part of the speech but not quite summarizing, an example of this is when you are doing an assignment or homework where you need to examine a person in history and he has said something that was important. So you take out the important part of what he said during his speech and you quote it in your assignment or homework (they're usually used with these "quote")

Summarizing is when you get a large paragraph and cut it down into a smaller sentences or a smaller paragraph

An example would be, if the paragraph you read is 300 words long but you want it smaller, you would summarize it to make it smaller.

hope this helps : )

Answer 6

Paraphrasing: rephrasing what the author said in different words. A "translation" of what the author said into how you would say it. Typically the same length as the original paper.

Summarizing: Finding the key points of what the author said and writing it down in your own words. An "interpretation" of what the author said. Should be much shorter than the original paper.

Quoting: Repeating what the author said. A "copy" of what they said in exactly their words. Only an excerpt of the original paper.