Many times, a boss or supervisor may want you to write a short summary to paraphrase what was said or what happened at an event (like a meeting). Paraphrasing or summarizing means that you're not giving a word-for-word account of what transpired, but that you're giving the most important points or an overview of things.
Let's look at an example.
Perhaps you're at a restaurant and your friend says this to the waiter: "I have some questions about the breakfast specials. Are they all prepared with butter? I'm not sure that I want butter. What about the pancakes? Are they made with butter too? Oh, forget it. I'll just order the waffles and not worry about it."
You might paraphrase that by telling someone that your friend asked some questions about the food, including if it was made with butter, and he decided to order the waffles. (Do you see how that is a much shorter way to give someone the main idea?
I'd like you to give it a try! Visit one of the web sites below and pick a story to read. Then, come back here & paraphrase what you read in 2-4 sentences.
Travel Channel
CNN Entertainment
USA Today
7 comments:
Good Magazines made a list of 21 urban cities in the world that are the most dangerous for pedestrians. Amazingly the top three dangerous cites for pedestrians are Los angels, Atlanta and Detroit. They have the amount of 100,000 pedestrians in their cities, and they manage to have 28,920 fatal deaths all together. When on the other hand Tokyo has about 13 million pedestrians, and maintains a rate at a minimum of 1,700 fatal deaths.
Nicole Cunningham
_I used CNN entertainment website
-The link to my story: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/08/the-worlds-most-deadly-cities-for-pedestrians/?cnn=yes
Paraphrasing
I selected www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ; The MARQUEE blog which featured a story on Megan McCain.
Megan McCain daughter of Senator John McCain spoke with John Stewart on The Daily Show where she talked about her sentiments of how she felt during the campagne trail for her father where she was sent to an image consultant who told her she was not good enough, while Bristol Palin her father’s running mate-daughter, who was a pregnant teen at the time, should have seemed worst, but instead made her lower her self-esteem.
SHENEA WALKER
I am paraphrasing an article from CNN Entertainment: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/26/miley.cyrus.liam.hemsworth.ppl/index.html?iref=allsearch
Miley Cyrus, star of the Last Song movie, split with her boyfriend of over a year, Liam Hemsworth last week. The breakup came as a big surprise to fans everywhere.
I used CNN, Hurricane Igor becomes major Atlantic storm.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/12/tropical.weather/index.html?hpt=T2
Igor now a major Category 4 hurricane, located in the Atlantic Ocean with winds of 140 mph, but remained far from land.
Maria C. Torres
9/12/2010
On Michael S. Moore's article in the Travel Channel of 9/8/2010
The writer, in quest of the surfing association in Cuba, gets a ride in a gypsy cab. The driver seems a bit leery about surfing in Cuba since he doesn't think that Cuba has any waves. However, he is willing to accept the whole thing as long as surfing could be validated as a bona-fide sport.
Dad and son reappear after 17 years. The dad kidnapped the boy in 1993 and now confessed.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/09/17/dnt.dad.surrenders.after.17.years.KTRK?hpt=T2
Maria C. Torres
9/19/2010
I went to CNN.I read about divorce insurance.Some of the premiums are more than 1,000 a month.Divorce insurance implies from the beginning that divorce is already an option.I never knew that.It's something to think about.
Angela Richardson
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