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Summarizing vs Paraphrasing - What's the difference?

summarizing | paraphrasing |

As verbs the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing

is that summarizing is while paraphrasing is .

As a noun paraphrasing is

a paraphrased statement.

summarizing

English

Verb

(head)

    • paraphrasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A paraphrased statement.
  • * 2012 , Neil Bright, Those Who Can: Why Master Teachers Do What They Do (page 152)
    • Several paragraphs are mainly composed of paraphrasings or direct quotations from a single reference source.