DISCOURSE NOTE Paraphrasing and summarizing There are various aspects of paraphrasing and summarizing you might want to discuss with students. Ultimately, the ability to write about someone else’s ideas using your own words – not necessarily those used by the original writer – is crucial to developing your own point of view, which is an implicit goal of all academic writing. This process starts with note-taking, since the work involved here in rewording and summarizing ideas helps us to understand them and to retain them in memory. You might also want to discuss the importance of avoiding plagiarism, which is strongly disapproved of in the academic – as well as the commercial – world.
Closure
Ask students to define some of the computing words from the text on Course Book page 21. Alternatively, give definitions of some of the words and ask students to identify the words.