What is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?
o summarizing is shorter than paraphrasing and includes only the most important details.
o summarizing puts the text in the writer's words, while paraphrasing uses the original text.
o paraphrasing is shorter than summarizing, and paraphrasing includes only the main idea.
o paraphrasing puts only the main idea in the writer's words, while summarizing includes key details.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.