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Summarizing
When you summarize your source information, you are writing a very brief retelling of
the original source’s chapter into a paragraph of your own words or possibly an original
source’s paragraph into a sentence of your own words. When you summarize, you have
thoroughly read the original source, you fully understand and have synthesized the
original source, and now you are simply retelling this large amount of information in
only a few sentences using your own words.
Above information is taken from:
Winkler, Anthony C., and Jo Ray McCuen. Writing the Research Paper. Fort Worth: Harcourt College
Publishers, 1999.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language
Association of America, 2003.