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Research Paper
PARAPHRASE AND SUMMARY 1
Once you find sources that contain answers to your research questions, you will
record notes on note cards. There are two ways to take notes.
• Paraphrase Restates all the information in the original in one’s own words. A paraphrase is
about the same length as the original.
• Summary Restates the main ideas of the original in one’s own words, but captures only the
key points. A summary is shorter than the original.
Directions: Carefully read the first source. Then write a paraphrase of it. Check
your version against the original to make sure that you have accurately conveyed the
same ideas. Repeat this process with the second source, but write a summary
instead.
Original Source 1 Paraphrase
“Much of the plot of Julius Caesar, like that
of Richard III, is shaped by the device of the
predictive dream or sign. The two plays have
another point of similarity, not unrelated to the
device of dream: each divides men into two
camps.”
Garber, Majorie B. “Dream and Interpretation:
Julius Caesar.” Dream in Shakespeare:
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis. New
Haven: Yale UP, 1974. Rpt. in William
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Ed. Harold
Bloom. Modern Critical Interpretations. New
York: Chelsea, 1988. 43.

Original Source 2 Summary

“It is difficult, now to separate the most
famous Roman of them all from the most
famous author of them all. For twenty
generations, the Julius Caesar defined by
Shakespeare has overwhelmed all other
images of Caesar.”Cross, Suzanne.
“Bestriding the World.” Julius Caesar: The
Last Dictator. 2004. 30 April 2008
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