Agenda

• Prompt

• Research Question/Search Term Clinic

• What’s happening this week

• Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting

• Closing

• HW: Find your Second Source.

Prompt

• Describe your experience settling on an appropriate research question, breaking that question down into search terms, plugging those terms into the database, and finding a source. What went smoothly? What was a challenge?

Research Question Clinic

• How can we support each other?

This Week…

• Monday – Research Question, Search Terms, Database

• Tuesday – Survey

• Wednesday – Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting (“prepping” the information from our sources to include in essay)

• Thursday – Building the Outline, Planning our Paragraphs and Preparing to Integrate our Source Material

• Friday – Paragraph Development and Citation

• Monday – Rubric and Peer Review/ Support

• Tuesday – Editing and Proofreading, Final Q&A with Alisa

• Thursday – Final Essay due

Summary, Paraphrase, Quote

How to properly summarize, paraphrase and quote in an academic paper.

Summarizing

• Is telling the main idea that someone wrote, but not including the details.

• Summarize when you want to give the general outline, or an overview of the entire source.

• What is the “Introduction Summary for your First Source? (ie: James Collier, in his essay titled “Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name,” explains the value in facing and overcoming the butterflies).

Quoting

• Is using the actual words that someone else said or wrote. “Use quotation marks.”

• We quote the really sexy stuff – when the wording is so beautiful or powerful that to change any part of it would be a shame.

• We quote when we need to be very precise, such as when we are quoting an expert who is giving a definition of something.

Rules of quoting

• Don’t use quotes very often – 1 or 2 per page (250 words).

• Use short quotes, not long ones.

• Use quotation marks correctly – within your own sentence. NO: “Education is important” (Miller 23). YES: According to John Miller, “Education is important” (23).

Paraphrasing

• Is putting what someone wrote into your own words. We often paraphrase sentences or paragraphs (not the entire source).

• Most often, you will paraphrase, not summarize or quote your sources.

• You paraphrase when you want to indicate the details of a point but there’s nothing special about the way the author said it.

Yay, Paraphrasing!

• Paraphrasing helps you build your credibility. When you can paraphrase something, when you can explain it in your own words, you truly understand what it means.

Rules of paraphrasing

• You must be careful in paraphrasing. If you are too close to the original wording, you could run into plagiarism. You must keep the original meaning but use different vocabulary and, if possible, a different sentence structure.

How to paraphrase

• Read the paragraph carefully several times until you feel you understand what it is saying.

• Without looking at the paragraph, write your own version of it, using your own vocabulary and way of putting things.

• Look back at the original wording – are you too close? Remember, the paraphrase should sound like your own writing, not the source you are paraphrasing.

Let’s Practice Quoting

• Pick out the 3 best sentences in your source. They should be beautiful, sexy and/or precise definitions of something.

• Quote them properly in your notebook, using the correct format: NO: “Education is important” (Miller 23). YES: According to John Miller, “Education is important” (23).

Let’s Practice Paraphrasing!

• Paraphrase the first paragraph of your source.

• Read the paragraph carefully several times until you feel you understand what it is saying.

• Without looking at the paragraph, write your own version of it, using your own vocabulary and way of putting things.

• Look back at the original wording – are you too close? Remember, the paraphrase should sound like your own writing, not the source you are paraphrasing.