What’s the difference?

1. What’s the difference? Paraphrasing: Summarizing: relays the main points of a passage and reports what the author is really saying. adds no interpretation of evaluation and retains the approach and tone of the original author. omits minor details, illustrations, quotations, anecdotes, and other inessential material. gives the reader an overview of what the original author said. is significantly shorter than the original text. • is a restatement in your own words of a passage written by another author. • helps the reader understand difficult material that was originally written by another author. • helps avoid plagiarizing. • is about the same length as the original text. • strives to convey the content and meaning of the original source; not just abbreviate it.

2. From Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” • "I kept quite still and said nothing.  For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down.  He was still sitting up in the bed listening, --just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall." • For an hour, I kept very still and never heard him lie down.  He was listening to the deathwatch beetles in the wall as I have done before. • For the whole hour, I was completely still.  I never heard him lie down.  He was sitting up listening to the sounds in the wall that made him feel as if something was terribly wrong.   I have done this myself many times before.