Incorporating paraphrases and summaries.

Incorporating paraphrases and summaries. Introduce paraphrases and summaries clearly, usually with a signal phrase that includes the author of the source, as the highlighted words in this example indicate.

Professor of linguistics Deborah Tannen says that she offers her book That’s Not What I Meant! to “women and men everywhere who are trying their best to talk to each other” (19). Tannen goes on to illustrate how communication between women and men breaks down and then to suggest that a full awareness of “genderlects” can improve relationships (297).