Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

The use of these process may help you to incorporate someone elses work in your own
productions, due to quotations make reference to the use of original information that must
be assign to the author, moreover, paraphrasing implicate to transform others information
in your own words, and summarizing cover the two previous process but including an
overview of the main ideas of the source.
Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries are really useful, they may help you to provide
support and credibility to your work, to direct it and to use examples as reference. On the
other hand, you can use them to show your agreement or disagreement in a position
likewise highlight an idea or phrase by quoting or increase the horizon of your work.
For writers, the use of these strategies is really important. They tend to use them
simultaneously in an article, a chapter or a book. Look up this example:
Sigmund Froid in his memorable work the interpretation of Dreams exposes that dreams
are the royal road to the unconscious (page #). According to the author, actual but
unacceptable desires are censored internally and subjected to coding through layers of
condensation and displacement before emerging in a kind of rebus puzzle in the dream
itself (page #).
How to use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries

To use these three processes you should follow this instructions:
- Read the text and select key ideas.
- Summarize in your words the main idea.
- Paraphrase the important points
- Quote the aspects that you consider must be include in its original form
There are different ways to combine these activities in a passage; quotations can be
shorter or longer but mostly sparingly.


Paraphrase: write it in your own words

Paraphrase is the act of borrow information of a source, or ideas of someone else in order
to interpret them in your own words without losing the full meaning of the original version.
Conjointly, it is important to indicate where you got that information.
To paraphrase successfully, you should first read the original version till you have clearly
understood its main idea, then select key words or phrases that will help you to point out
the subject of your paraphrase, and thus star to write. Later, look over the content and
compare it with the original, to confirm that the first one address all the essential
information but in a different way. Additionally, try to use quotation marks in all the
exclusive terms or phrases that you took of the original version in order to give credit to the
author.