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    Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing Activities - Part 2

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    This document provides instructions for several activities involving quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing texts. The first activity asks the reader to provide an extractive and abstractive summary of a short paragraph about a man whose car broke down. The second activity involves paraphrasing and summarizing a passage from a dissertation about the importance of pre-reading activities in enhancing reading comprehension. The reader is asked to paraphrase the passage, summarize it, include a direct quotation, and identify issues with a poor paraphrase.

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    This document provides instructions for several activities involving quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing texts. The first activity asks the reader to provide an extractive and abstractive summary of a short paragraph about a man whose car broke down. The second activity involves paraphrasing and summarizing a passage from a dissertation about the importance of pre-reading activities in enhancing reading comprehension. The reader is asked to paraphrase the passage, summarize it, include a direct quotation, and identify issues with a poor paraphrase.

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    Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing Activities - Part 2

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    This document provides instructions for several activities involving quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing texts. The first activity asks the reader to provide an extractive and abstractive summary of a short paragraph about a man whose car broke down. The second activity involves paraphrasing and summarizing a passage from a dissertation about the importance of pre-reading activities in enhancing reading comprehension. The reader is asked to paraphrase the passage, summarize it, include a direct quotation, and identify issues with a poor paraphrase.

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    Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing Activities - Part 2

    ACTIVITY ONE:
    Provide an EXTRACTIVE Summary then an ABSTRACTIVE
    summary of the following paragraph:
    "John’s car broke down. He stopped by the road side and screamed at
    people to stop and help him. But no one stopped for him. He continued
    howling and howling for hours. People kept driving by. After getting tired,
    he picked up a sheet and wrapped it around himself. Then, he started
    spinning on his spot. He grew dizzy. He kept spinning and spinning until
    he fell asleep."

    ACTIVITY TWO:
    Pretend that you are writing an essay on the importance of pre-reading
    activities in enhancing students’ reading comprehension. While
    researching, you come across the following passage extracted from an MA
    dissertation (page 18), written by a researcher named: Henry Johnson, and
    defended in June 2012

    In order to develop better language learning skills for ESL learners all four skills are equally important.
    Reading has its own importance to language learning. Many researchers showed that pre-reading activities
    aids learners comprehending a text better.
    Schema theory researchers showed greater importance of background knowledge for better understanding of
    the text. There are many readers who face problems in comprehending a text because of insufficient
    background knowledge. Question may arise that "Can we improve students' reading by activating their
    background knowledge of the reading topic through appropriate reading activities?" Many researchers possess
    a positive answer to this question. Research showed the significance as it discusses the importance of text
    previewing activities for ESL readers because of the potential of cultural specificity of the text content. For the
    lower level of English proficiency learners, meaning tends to break at the word level just because they cannot
    associate meaning of the word with the context. It also showed that learners given with pre-reading activities
    of pictures and discussion were able to predict what they would find in the reading text.

    You decide to include a paraphrase and summary of the entire passage in your
    essay. Remember that a paraphrase records all the important details of a
    passage, and a summary condenses a passage to the main ideas.
    1. In your own words, write the best paraphrase you can of Johnson’s passage.
    Write a citation for your paraphrase.
    2. In your own words, write the best summary you can of Johnson’s passage.
    Write a citation for your summary.
    3. Select part of the passage (that talks about the role of pre-reading activities)
    to cite it in your essay as a direct quotation, then identify the type of the
    quotation.
    4. Purposely write a poor paraphrase and summary of the above passage with
    poor quotations and citations, and make a short list of the characteristics that
    make them poor.

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