Summary: tells the main idea of a piece of writing. The summary is always shorter than the main text and leaves out details that aren’t important to the paper you are writing. You always write a summary in your own words.2.
Paraphrase: takes 1-3 sentences of a piece of writing which is important for your reader to understand (usually it is writing which is difficult or has technical language) and puts it into your own words. You need to change both the words and the word order in a paraphrase. How to Write a Summary1. Read the article carefully.
2. Underline the main ideas as you read or write them on a separate piece of paper.
3.Re-read the underlined sections and decide the main idea of the article.
4. If you are using a summary in your own paper, think about how that summary will help you prove a point in your paper.
5. Re-write the main idea in your own words. Include the details which help you prove your point.
6.Start with an author tag which includes the first and last name of the author and the title of the article. Every other sentence after that uses the author’s last name only.
