Paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting are very useful for academic writing. I wold like to talk about the means of these terms.
1) Paraphrasing
- to restate the idea in another word by simple ways
- to make approximately same length as the original state
2) Summarizing
- to sum up the statement by your own words
- including just the main idea
- much shorter than paraphrasing
3) Quoting
- to cite someone's word, information and phrase
- don't forget using "quotation marks"
Here's links to helpful understanding
Paraphrasing and Summarizing; http://libguides.worc.ac.uk/harvard/paraphrasing
Quoting; http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/quotations
