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    Elements of Writing English -I (FLEn 220)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2000-09) G/Mariam, Almirew; Bogale, Birhanu (PhD)
    The word-by word attention required for a good paraphras_e will lead you across all the contours of another writer's thought. You will follow the main trail of meaning, the ridges of fine distinctions, the cutbacks of qualifications, and the waysides of association. Like a patient hiker on a slow trek, you must mentally pull together all the major events of the journey in order to sense the total experience. Writing a summary, on the other hand, allows you to review the entire process as a whole. Unlike the paraphrase writer, who must discover new ways to restate the meaning, the summarizer looks for the most compact restatement. To high light the essentials of another writer's idea- rather than to provide a complete and detailed restatement is the purpose of summmary writing. A summary will help you understand the major direction, the main points and the overall shape of the overall detailed original. A summary restates the esssence of the original in as few words as possible, but not necessarily in different words. In most cases I when you use an author's original words, you need to put them in quotation marks. When you are writing a freestanding summary, for which the source is given andwhich is labeled as a summary of that source (and only in this situation),You need not mark by quotation marks the use of the author's words with quotation marks. To rewrite a longer piece in short form, you must first understand the piece you are working with. Begin by reading the piece carefully, making sure you absorb the full meaning. If there are words you do not know, look them up. If some sentences are confusing, paraphrase them. Identify the main ideas and determine how the less important material relates to those main ideas. In short, read. Once you understand the piece you are summanzlng, you must decide which parts you are going to include in the summary and which . you are going to leave out. Of course, how much material you select depends on how long you want the summary to be and for what purpose you are going to use the summary. However, unless you have a more