On the other hand, if you're writing a paper in which you're making a claim about the reading habits of American elementary school students or reviewing the current research on Wilson's disease, you should paraphrase text from your sources.
Im confused as to why you should paraphrase this one instead of directly quote
quoting directly from a text allows you to introduce your reader to the way those ideas are expressed by showing such details as language, syntax, and cadence.
It also helps the writer stay on task and understand where they can head in the direction for their writing
you should make it clear to your reader why you are presenting this particular material from a source at this point in your paper.
It goes back to the idea that there needs to be a reason why your including the info, basically the importance of the idea.
When you paraphrase from a source, you restate the source's ideas in your own words.
Should you restate the idea a little, then explain the idea in your own words?
When you include a summary of a paper in your essay, you must cite the source.
why is citing necessary if you aren't directly using information.
In his experiment, a group of participants were asked to administer electric shocks to people who made errors on a simple test. In spite of signs that those receiving shock were experiencing great physical pain, 25 of 40 subjects continued to administer electric shocks.
Gives the reader the main idea and quick overview, then dives in deeper about the experiment
but you should not include all of the background information and examples.
Figure out the most important idea or two, and explain at that only, more ideas and concepts only make the summary longer and lose its short and concise value.
Before you summarize a source in your paper, you should decide what your reader needs to know about that source in order to understand your argument.
Provide information that might not be directly from the text but will drastically help your reader understand, more like background information.