Practice 2 | Advance Writing Class

PRACTICE 2

SUMMARIZING AND PARAPHRASING

Please read these folowing paragraph carefully. Then,write the summary and paraphrase of the paragraphs.

1. From Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Chapter 8, Section I, Paragraph 1, Page 190:

Most medical people despised the press, holding attitudes not totally unfamiliar today. Reporters tended to be suckers for every quack, half-quack, over-eager scientist, or naive country doctor who thought he had a serum to cure tuberculosis, a herbal remedy for cancer, or a new surgical procedure to rejuvenate the aged. When the newspapers were not wasting space on undeserving medical stories, they were over-playing legitimate news, getting their facts wrong, and generally making a nuisance of themselves interfering in the lives and practices of busy professionals. Doctors’ deep suspicion of what they read in the newspapers and even in the less-carefully edited of the medical journals, helps to explain some of the early skepticism about insulin in countries like Britain: Oh, the Americans are always curing everything; this week it’s diabetes. Even in Canada and the United States it was some months before there was enough confirmation of the unlikely news from Toronto to convince wire services and the more skeptical doctors and editors that insulin was, indeed, the real thing.

Summary: Most medical people despised the press. Reporter tended to be suckers for country doctor who thought he had a serum to cure tuberculosis, cancer, or any new surgical procedure. Reporters were over-playing legitimate news by making nuisance of themselves interfering in the lives. Doctors deep suspicion of what they read and edited of the medical journal, that helps to explain some of the skepticism. Even in Canada and United States before there was a confirmation of the unlikely news from Toronto to convince wire services and skeptical doctors and editor that insulin was a real thing.

Paraphrase: Most medical people hate press, they hate to keep a good attitude. Reporter said that doctor who had a serum that able to cure tuberculosis, cancer, or any dangerous disease was a fool. Reporter manage the news by making nuisance of themselves interfering in the lives. Doctor do an act by editing medical journal and give an explanation about the skepticism. Even in Canada and US something like this ever happen before, news about skepticism insulin too. (Bliss, Michael, 1982)

2.  “[C]hronological consistency of cultural artifacts, including language, cannot really be seen as a defining feature of the Tolkienian narrative, however much the author seems to have wanted to make it so -- after the fact. As T.A. Shippey has pointed out, the Shire is Edwardian England, with postal service, pipes after dinner, teatime and ‘weskits’” (Straubhaar, 110).

Summary: Chronological consistency of cultural artifacts, cannot really be seen as a defining feature of the Tolkienian narrative, and much the author seems to have wanted to make it so. 

Paraphrase: Chronological consistency of cultural artifacts, including language, cannot be use as a subject of the Tolkienian narrative, but a lot of  another author want to make it something like that. Just like what T.A. Shippey said, the Shire is Edwardian England, with postal service, pipes after dinner, teatime and ‘weskits’” (Straubhaar, 110).

3. Another important difference between Canada and the United States was the existence of French Canada. Many of the immigrants to New France had left France at a time when liberal ideas were virtually non-existent, and hence they brought with them to the new land an attitude to the state and to society that was more tory-feudal than liberal. When liberal ideas were introduced, they were brought through the medium of the English-speaking protestants who came to settle after the Conquest and who were commercial as well as religious rivals of the French. It was such a situation that Lord Durham reported. He sought to impose on Quebec an authoritarian form of government, fearing that if Quebecers were given democratic rights in the mid-nineteenth century, they would use their power to prevent the development of a liberal society (Christian and Campbell, 1990, p. 282).

Summary: Most important difference between Canada and the United States was the existence of French Canada. Many of the immigrants to New France had left France at a time when liberal ideas were virtually non-existent. They were brought through the medium of the English-speaking protestants who came after the Conquest and who were commercial as well as religious rivals of the French. It was such a situation that Lord Durham reported. He sought to impose on Quebec an authoritarian form of government, fearing that if Quebecers were given democratic rights in the mid-nineteenth century, they would use their power to prevent the development of a liberal society

Paraphrase: The most significant different thing between Canada and the United States was the existence of French Canada. Many of the immigrants from New France had left France at a time when there was no more liberal ideas or freedom anymore. Lord Durham said that when liberal ideas were introduced, the immigrants and the English-speaking protestants who came to settle after the Conquest and who were commercial as well as religious rivals of the French. He tried to impose on Quebec an authoritarian form of government, if Quebecers were given democratic rights in the mid-nineteenth century, they would use their power to prevent the development of a liberal society. (Christian and Campbell, 1990, p. 282).