Blog Post 8

In chapter 7, Integrating and Documenting Sources, there is a lot of good information that will help our class with our research paper. In my last blog, I talked about plagiarism and tips for avoiding that. This time I read the sections about paraphrasing and summarizing. When you are paraphrasing you basically have to put every idea in new words, while when you are summarizing you only put the main idea in new words. I also learned that paraphrasing is useful for only small sections and for lines that you do not want to quote. For both of these conventions you still need to cite the source in whatever convention that you are using. The tips I learned for paraphrasing a source was that you should read the text once and then walk away from it for a few minutes. Then, you write in your own words what you read. A key difference that I did not know was that in paraphrasing you are supposed to keep the length similar to the original work and with summarizing it is supposed to be a lot shorter than the original text or piece. This chapter helped me recall a lot of helpful information that I forgot and prepared me for the research that is to follow.