Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

In a last ease-in to drafting my rhetorical analysis, I'm going to show an example of paraphrasing and an example of providing a summary of a quote, based on my article "It's not just a 'California drought'" by Cynthia Barnett.

Prechtel, Brian. "Strawberries." 1/20/10 via Wikimedia Commons.
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Original quote: "Drought's consequences also reach beyond the Western states, to grocery stores and East Coast pastureland.  Water scarcity has drawn attention to the fact that California produces half the fruits, nuts, and vegetables grown in the nation, and heightened concerns about the sustainability of industrial agriculture in a warming world."
(source: "It's not just a 'California drought'" by Cynthia Barnett)

Paraphrase of Original Source
Cynthia Barnett, an environmental journalist, believes that drought is a nationwide issue (Barnett 2015).  The problems caused by water shortage in the US can't be contained to just one region of America: western states provide agricultural goods of all kinds to the West as well as the East.  If agricultural practices continue to consume the same high rates of water, the water supply will run out.

Summary of Original Source
Cynthia Barnett, an environmental journalist, claims that water shortage affects all of America because western states provide most of agriculture goods to the rest of the nation (Barnett 2015).