comm 1 mth 10:30-12 notes and assignment

What is paraphrasing?
A paraphrase is an accurate, thorough restatement of the original text in your own words. It will actually be about as long as the original work, and it will most certainly retain all of the original ideas.
What is paraphrasing? Paraphrases, when they appear within a paper, must be cited, because they are the author's ideas that come from the original work, not your own ideas.
Paraphrasing
-"translating" the original text into one’s own language, to flow better with his/her own writing.
When to paraphrase:
• When the ideas are more important than the author's authority or style
• When the original language isn't particularly memorable, but the ideas are.
• When the original language is too difficult to understand (for instance, when the particular jargon or complexity of the original work is so difficult to understand that you need to paraphrase it so that the meaning is immediately clear)

Exercise: Paraphrase the following paragraphs and post your answer on your blog on or before july 10, sunday 11:59pm.

1. Aristotle on the other hand, believed that imitation involves human experience and in that sense he saw a role for the arts. According to Aristotle, the artist has the freedom to imitate aspects of nature, but he does insist on the unity of form (formal and structural qualities). Aristotle explains form in terms of its “causes” by which he means any external factor (apart from “matter”’) that explains why something is the way it is, and what function it can perform. In short, form is that which causes something to be the thing it is. So whereas Plato’s form relates to Ideal forms, Aristotle relates form to something inherent in the object.
Imitation and Beauty

2. Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way they discuss imitation in relationship to beauty. For Plato, beauty is an idea, something abstract that is revealed in the order of the natural world. Hence the importance he placed on mathematics as the key to understanding the natural world. For Aristotle, beauty is something real, it is also a function of form, it is not abstract as for Plato, but it is grounded in an object. In other words, it is bound to a context.