Kayne Lester B.

Mondoñedo Grade 12 Block E10 Engl01 (TTh 3:00-4:30 PM)

How can one be accused of plagiarism? In the advent of modern technology, people tend to
misuse information from certain sites and forget to acknowledge the authors which lead to plagiarism. In
academic writing, plagiarizing other work results to failure especially when doing research. To avoid
plagiarism, a writer has to correctly and effectively use the ideas of the source in one’s work. It is always
helpful to find ideas from different sources and learn information about certain topic but using their ideas,
one has to cite them well. There are three skills that will help a writer in encapsulating ideas effectively
from sources which includes summarizing, paraphrasing, and direct quoting. These three skills have their
similarities and differences especially on their usage and purposes.

Summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quoting are three skills to incorporate ideas from another
work into one’s work. Summarizing involves putting the main ideas into one’s words from a source
material. It provides a broad overview of the context including its main points. Paraphrasing involves
putting a passage from a source material into one’s words. Words and phrases are changed in
paraphrasing but it still conveys the same meaning from the context. Direct quoting involves the use of
short phrases or passage word for word from the source material. Words being used in direct quoting
must match from the source material word by word and must be attributed to the author. These three skills
provide a way in using ideas of others into one’s work without plagiarizing.

The usage and purpose of summarizing, paraphrasing, and direct quoting depend on the
information that is going to be incorporated into one’s work. Summarizing is used when the idea that will
be incorporated comes from long sections like a page of a book. It allows the writer to condense a long
passage from a source material by using its main ideas which are relevant to the writer’s paper.
Paraphrasing is used when the writer wants to rewrite the author’s words by keeping its meaning to grasp
the full meaning of the source material. It is usually used when the text comes from a paragraph or
sentences where the writer changes the words and phrases conveying the same meaning. Direct quoting is
used when the writer wants to highlight the author’s words in their argument or claim. It allows the writer
to convey words with powerful meaning straight from the author like philosophical quotations and is
accompanied by quotation marks. Further, these three skills in incorporating another writer’s work into
one’s work can be used in different ways and provide support to claims into one’s writing especially
when doing a research paper.
 Summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quoting have their own differences and similarities. First,
summarizing and paraphrasing does not use phrases word by word whereas direct quoting uses it.
Second, summarizing presents a broad overview of the context while paraphrasing alters the words or
phrases from the context and direct quoting simply copies the phrase under quotation marks.
Summarizing comes from long context like book pages that is why broad overview is being used to
present ideas while paraphrasing and direct quoting comes from short context so it shows direct meaning
of the context. Lastly, summarizing is used when a writer wants to present the main points from the
source material while paraphrasing is used when writer wants to rewrite the text but keeps the meaning
and direct quoting is used when the writer wants to highlight the author’s word and its claim in order to
present powerful meaning. If there is a context about plagiarism, it could summarized through presenting
the overview of plagiarism by defining it; if paraphrased, one can include conditions for plagiarizing; and
if directly quoted, one can include the original statement from the context written under quotation marks.
These three skills differ on how they are being used and their own purpose. However, these three skills
are all attributed to the original source material and all of them require a writer to cite their sources.
Summarizing, paraphrasing, and direct quotation differs in their own strengths in usage and purpose in an
academic paper and all of them require citations.

There are three skills to help incorporate other’s work into one’s work which includes
summarizing, paraphrasing, and direct quoting. Summarizing involves the main points of the context,
paraphrasing uses passage from the context into one’s word having the same meaning while direct
quoting uses phrases word by word from the context. Summarizing is used when the writer wants to
condense the idea from the context into main points, paraphrasing is used when a writer wants to retain
the meaning of the context by changing the words or phrases while direct quoting is used when the writer
wants to directly use the words from the context. These three skills differs on when and how they are used
to incorporate different ideas into one’s work. They are all attributed to the original source and require a
writer to accredit ideas from the original source by citing it. If one knows how to use the three skills
mentioned, can one avoid plagiarism? To effectively encapsulate one’s ideas from the sources, a writer
can summarize, paraphrase, and directly quote it.