Practicing Summary & Paraphrase

Paraphrasing large portions of text that illustrate rhetorical strategies or an author's style of writing is necessary when it comes to writing an analytical essay. Below is a small sample of paraphrasing which I will be using heavily in my analytical essay.

HebiFot. "Magnifying Glass Magnification Larger View Focus" 09/18/2014 via pixabay.com CC0 Public Domain

Original Source:

"But fusion’s potential is simply too great to give up. And, in fact, the progress that has been made in recent years – despite the lack of adequate investment – belies the naysayers. Machines all over the world are reaching fusion temperatures and extending our technological capabilities. The ITER experiment, when it starts up in the early 2020s, will embody those advances, achieving the long-awaited fusion burn – and place us just one step away from the ultimate goal of getting fusion power on the grid in an affordable manner."

My Paraphrase of Original Source:

• Signal Phrase: "Cowley opinion is clearly explained when he describes the potential of nuclear fusion."
• Change in language (original- new): Potential- opportunity, investment- finical assistance, capabilities- facilities, affordable- cheap, embody- demonstrate
• Change in word order and sentence structure: Beginning sentences with subjects instead of conjunctions and using complex sentence structures will distinguish the paraphrase from the original quotation.
• In-text citation: (Cowley, "Is Nuclear Fusion the best way to support ring energy demands?")

My Summary of the Original Source:

• Cowley's opinion is clearly explained when he describes the opportunity nuclear fusion presents the world because it will provide cheap energy even though finical assistance has been scarce for experiments to demonstrate nuclear fusion (Cowley, "Is Nuclear Fusion the best way to support ring energy demands?").