Paraphrase the following paragraphs.

​ (a)
"In the more than a century and a half of their existence, Washington Irving's two most famous
stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' have taken on a life of their own. They
have been read, listened to, and, from the time of Joseph Jefferson's first staging of "Rip" to our own
age of mass media, watched in various productions, by generations of adults and children alike. Yet
relatively few people are aware that they were once—and, for that matter, still technically are—part
of of an apparently miscellaneous, but actually quite coherent unified, collection of sketches, essays,
and stories called ​The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon​" (Rubin-Dorsky 393).

​PARAPHRASED:
Washington Irving's two most popular novels, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow," took on a life of their own in more than a decade and a half of their creation. They were
being read, listened to, and watched in multiple plays, by millions of kids and adults alike, from the
period of Joseph Jefferson's first staging of "Rip" from our own era of advanced media. Yet very few
people are well aware that they were once, and are still theoretically, for that matter, part of a series
of sketches, essays, and stories called Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, seemingly different, but
really very coherent (Rubin-Dorsky 393).
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(​ b)
"So dynamic is the Web that new technologies and techniques are emerging all the time. What's
commonplace one year becomes old hat the next. The only thing that seems to remain constant is
people's desire to transmit and receive information efficiently and to communicate with others, no
matter what the means. That's what drives people to shop, invest, and converse online, and it is the
same force that is propelling them to learn online as well" (Ko & Rossen, 2008, p. 5).

PARAPHRASED:
The Web is so diverse that modern technology and strategies are constantly changing. One year's
trendy is the next year's pretty outdated. Just one thing that appears to be consistent is the ability of
people to quickly share and obtain knowledge and connect with others, regardless of whatever the
means. This is what promotes online shopping, spending, and communication, and this is the same
energy (Ko & Rossen, 2008, p. 5).
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