Writing Academic English 4th Edition

136 Partn IWritinganEssall

Paraphrase(63words,aboutthesameIe theoriginal)

Humanscommunicatethroughlanguage.Because e somanydifferent

languages,however,peoplearoundtheworldhavea dl Ittimeunderstanding

oneanother.Somepeoplehavewishedfora universalinternationallanguagethat

speakersallovertheworldcouldunderstand.Theirreasonsarestraightforward

andclear.A universallanguagewouldbuildculturalandeconomicbonds.It would

alsocreatebetterfeelingsamongcountries(Kispert).

Summary(28words,muchshorter)

Peoplecommunicatethroughlanguage;however,havingdifferentlanguages

createscommunicationbarriers.A universallanguagecouldbringcountries

togetherculturallyandeconomicallyaswellasincreasegoodfeelingsamong

them(Kispert).

OriginalPassage(85words)

Languageis themainmeansofcommunicatio

manydifferentlanguageshavedevelopedthatIan

ratherthananaidtounderstandingamongpeo

havedreamedofsettingupaninternationalunive

couldspeakandunderstand.Theargumentsinf

simpleandobvious.Ifallpeoplesspokethesameto

economictiesmightbemuchcloser,andgoodwill

countries(Kispert).

Anotherwaytouseborrowedinformationfromanoutsidesourceis tosummarize

it.Whatis thedifferencebetweena paraphraseanda summary?Whenyouretella

storythatsomeonehastoldyou,yourepeatthestoryinyourownwords.Ifyour

retellingisaboutthesamelengthastheoriginal,it isa paraphrase.Ifyoushorten

thestory-retellingonlythemostimportantpointsandleavingoutthedetails-itis

a summary.

Somepeoplefeelthatweshouldnotsenda mannedspacecraftto Mars.Writea para-

graphinwhichyouagreewiththisstatement.

Step 1 Writea topicsentencethatstatesyouropinion.

Step 2 Writeseveralsupportingsentences,usingparaphrasesthatyouwrote

inPractice 2 (pages132-134)tosupportyourpoints.Includesome

additionalsupportingsentencesandtransitionsignalstoconnectthe

ideasandmakeyourparagraphflowsmoothly.

Step 3 Addanin-textcitationat theendofeachparaphraseyouuse.

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