Writing centre workshop

I attended a writing centre workshop on October 31, 2017. It was “Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting” Workshop! In the workshop we started with the discussion on quoting. The instructor mentioned that we often use quoting in case studies, research papers etc so its important to know the proper way of quoting. He explained that quoting gives authority and credibility to us to use ideas of someone else. It presents evidence to discuss and are exact wordings of someone. Then moving on to summarizing, he explained that summary is basically the main idea of the entire essay. It is the brief version and is expressed in our own words. It usually highlights certain aspects that are useful to us. Paraphrasing is like a summary but it is about a specific paragraph and is not as short as summary. It is restating what is mentioned in the paragraph in our own words. To practice quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing, the instructor gave us an essay “The Shanghai Secret”. We all read it aloud and then discussed it. Then he gave us another paper which had summary, quotations and paraphrases from the essay given to us earlier. We all discussed and picked up paragraphs that which one has quotes, which one is summary and then which one is paraphrase. He then again gave us some sheets which had similar examples and ways of how to make our writings impressive. That was really interesting because it had examples of how to write one thing in different ways. Then the instructor told us to take our essays which we were told to bring with us and then practice on that. We all took around 15-20 minutes to do that and then discussed it with him. It was a great experience to attend the workshop and gain some knowledge on how to improve our writings.