1. SUMMARIZE. Write the key points for the main topic.
2. QUOTE. Write first a short quote from the text, then a longer one (more than four lines).
3. PARAPHRASE: Rewrite the first paragraph with you own words.
4. MAKE SURE TO USE THE AUTHOR TAGS, APA STYLE.

My family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell:

For some time, the Rose-Beetle Man would turn up at the villa fairly regularly with some new addition to my menagerie: a frog, perhaps, or a sparrow with a broken wing. One afternoon Mother and I, in a fit of extravagant sentimentalism, bought up his entire stock of rose-beetles and, when he had left, let them all go in the garden, For days the villa was full of rose-beetles, crawling on the beds, lurking in the bathroom, banging against the lights at night and falling like emeralds into our laps.

The last time I saw the Rose-Beetle Man was one evening when I was sitting on a hill-top overlooking the road. He had obviously been to some fiesta and had been plied with much wine, for he swayed to and fro across the road, piping a melancholy tune on his flute. I shouted a greeting, and he waved extravagantly without looking back. As he rounded the corner he was silhouetted for a moment against the pale lavender evening sky (p.39)

Durrell, G. (1984). My family and Other Animals. London, England: Penguin Books.

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