The word-by word attention required for a good paraphras_e willrnlead you across all the contours of another writer's thought. You willrnfollow the main trail of meaning, the ridges of fine distinctions, therncutbacks of qualifications, and the waysides of association. Like arnpatient hiker on a slow trek, you must mentally pull together all the majorrnevents of the journey in order to sense the total experience. Writing arnsummary, on the other hand, allows you to review the entire process asrna whole.rnUnlike the paraphrase writer, who must discover new ways tornrestate the meaning, the summarizer looks for the most compactrnrestatement. To high light the essentials of another writer's idea- ratherrnthan to provide a complete and detailed restatement is the purpose ofrnsummmary writing. A summary will help you understand the majorrndirection, the main points and the overall shape of the overall detailedrnoriginal. A summary restates the esssence of the original in as fewrnwords as possible, but not necessarily in different words. In most cases Irnwhen you use an author's original words, you need to put them inrnquotation marks. When you are writing a freestanding summary, forrnwhich the source is given andwhich is labeled as a summary of thatrnsource (and only in this situation),You need not mark by quotation marksrnthe use of the author's words with quotation marks.rnTo rewrite a longer piece in short form, you must first understand thernpiece you are working with. Begin by reading the piece carefully, makingrnsure you absorb the full meaning. If there are words you do not know,rnlook them up. If some sentences are confusing, paraphrase them.rnIdentify the main ideas and determine how the less important materialrnrelates to those main ideas. In short, read.rnOnce you understand the piece you are summanzlng, you mustrndecide which parts you are going to include in the summary and whichrn. you are going to leave out. Of course, how much material you selectrndepends on how long you want the summary to be and for what purposernyou are going to use the summary. However, unless you have a more