Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph

  Welcome students! Today, I am going to teach you about summaries, paraphrases, and quotations. Evidence is data presented in proof of the facts in issue and which may include records, documents, or objects. You summarize evidence when you are providing a background, set the stage, or illustrate supporting evidence, but keep it very brief. To summarize you use a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.You quote evidence when discussing specific arguments or ideas, giving added emphasis to a particularly authoritative source on your topic, analyzing how others use language, and when spicing up your prose. To use a quote you repeat a passage or a phrase from a book, speech, essay, etc. You paraphrase evidence when using a sentence or two or a short paragraph, as an alternative to a direct quotation, to rewrite someone else's ideas without changing the meaning, to express someone else's ideas in your own words, or to support claims in, or provide evidence for, your writing. You paraphrase when giving a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording. To help you remember this, you should keep this with you and practice with a partner whenever you forget.