PRACTICE 2 SUMMARIZING AND PARAPHRASING

PRACTICE 2

SUMMARIZING AND PARAPHRASING

Please read these folowing paragraph carefully. Then,write the summary and paraphrase of the paragraphs.

1. From Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Chapter 8, Section I, Paragraph 1, Page 190:

Most medical people despised the press, holding attitudes not totally unfamiliar today. Reporters tended to be suckers for every quack, half-quack, over-eager scientist, or naive country doctor who thought he had a serum to cure tuberculosis, a herbal remedy for cancer, or a new surgical procedure to rejuvenate the aged. When the newspapers were not wasting space on undeserving medical stories, they were over-playing legitimate news, getting their facts wrong, and generally making a nuisance of themselves interfering in the lives and practices of busy professionals. Doctors’ deep suspicion of what they read in the newspapers and even in the less-carefully edited of the medical journals, helps to explain some of the early skepticism about insulin in countries like Britain: Oh, the Americans are always curing everything; this week it’s diabetes. Even in Canada and the United States it was some months before there was enough confirmation of the unlikely news from Toronto to convince wire services and the more skeptical doctors and editors that insulin was, indeed, the real thing.

Summary:

Today's press on reality raises a lot of suspicion for most doctors. Because journalists tend to be suckers for every quack and even doctors, who find new things, to rejuvenate the aged in the medical world. They over-play legitimate news, they get legitimate news, get the wrong facts, and generally make the difference between busy life and professional practice.

Paraphrase:

Most physicians distrusted the press and media, with attitudes and behaviors that are not entirely unknown today. For every quack, half - quack, over - eager scientist, or naive country doctor who thought he had a serum to cure tuberculosis, a herbal cancer remedy, or a new surgical procedure to rejuvenate the elderly, Reporters tended to be suckers.

2.  “[C]hronological consistency of cultural artifacts, including language, cannot really be seen as a defining feature of the Tolkienian narrative, however much the author seems to have wanted to make it so -- after the fact. As T.A. Shippey has pointed out, the Shire is Edwardian England, with postal service, pipes after dinner, teatime and ‘weskits’” (Straubhaar, 110).

Summary:

The chronological consistency of cultural artifacts, including language, can not really be regarded as a decisive feature of the Tolkien narrative, but many writers seem to want to do so - after all.

Paraphrase:

"[ C ] the chronological consistency of cultural artifacts, including language, can not really be regarded as a decisive feature of the Tolkien narrative, but many writers seem to want to do so - after all. As T. Shippey pointed out, the Shire is Edwardian England, with postal services, after dinner pipes, tea drinks and ' weskits '"

3. Another important difference between Canada and the United States was the existence of French Canada. Many of the immigrants to New France had left France at a time when liberal ideas were virtually non-existent, and hence they brought with them to the new land an attitude to the state and to society that was more tory-feudal than liberal. When liberal ideas were introduced, they were brought through the medium of the English-speaking protestants who came to settle after the Conquest and who were commercial as well as religious rivals of the French. It was such a situation that Lord Durham reported. He sought to impose on Quebec an authoritarian form of government, fearing that if Quebecers were given democratic rights in the mid-nineteenth century, they would use their power to prevent the development of a liberal society (Christian and Campbell, 1990, p. 282).

Summary:

The existence of Canadian France becomes another important difference between Canada and the United States. Many immigrants to New France had left France at the time of liberal ideas were virtually non-existent. Lord Durham reports that, when liberal ideas were introduced, he sought to impose Quebec as a form of authoritarian government in the mid-19th century, they would use their power to prevent the development of liberal societies.

Paraphrase:                                                                                                 

The existence of Canadian France becomes another significant difference between Canada and the United States.  Many of the immigrants to New France had left France at a time when liberal ideas were virtually non - existent, bringing with them to the new country an attitude more tory - feudal than liberal towards the state and society. When liberal ideas were finally introduced, they were brought through the medium of English - speaking Protestants who came to settle after the Conquest and who were both French commercial and religious rivals. This was such a situation that Lord Durham has reported. He decided to seek to enforce an authoritarian form of government on Quebec, suspecting that if Quebecers were granted democratic rights in the mid-19th century, they would use their power to block a liberal society from developing.