Paraphrasing What is it Putting something in your own words can be the shorter the same length or longer than the original goal is not to shorten the original goal is to restate it in your own words ID: 311868
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Paraphrasing, Summarizing and PlagiarizingSlide2
Paraphrasing
What is it?
Putting something in your own words
can be the shorter, the same length or longer than the original
goal is not to shorten the original; goal is to restate it in your own words
Do you have to cite a paraphrase?
Yes – you are still using someone else’s ideasSlide3
Paraphrasing is useful
It keeps you from quoting too much
You have to think about what you are reading so you have a better understanding of what you are reading (studying)Slide4
Practice
Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.Slide5
Suggested Response
Each year there are 1000 deaths in biking accidents. Head injuries cause 75% of these deaths. Children from 6 to 16 make up 50% of those deaths. Wearing a bike helmet, according to one questionnaire, can reduce head injuries significantly. The helmet acts like a sponge or pillow and protects the head from shock.Slide6
Summarizing
What is it?
Once again, you are putting the original into your own words.
In addition, your goal is to shorten it significantly by concentrating only on the main points.
Shorten the original by 2/3
Do you have to cite a summary of something?
Yes – you are still using someone else’s ideasSlide7
Try these . . .
An ignoramus and his/her lucre are readily disjoined.
A fool and his/her money are soon parted.
In the absence of the feline race, certain small rodents will give themselves up to various pleasurable pastimes.
When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
A plethora of culinary specialists vitiate the liquid in which a variety of nutritional substances have been simmered.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Impetuous celebrity engenders a purposeless spoilage.
Haste makes waste.
A winged and feathered animal in the digital limb is as valuable as duet in the shrubbery.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
The warm-blooded class
aves
who is governed by promptitude can apprehend the small, elongated, and slender creeping animal.
T
he early bird catches the worm.
Provide the privilege of
affranchisement
, or I will feel that life is not worth living.
Give me liberty or give me death.
A condition characterized by
tariness
is more desirable than one that is
systemiatically
marked by eternal absenteeism.
Better late than never.Slide8
Quote
What is it?
You are quoting something if you copy exactly what another person has written or said
A quote must be identical to the original
A quote is a small part of the original
Do you have to cite a quotation?
Absolutely – always – you are using someone’s exact wordsSlide9
How do you type a quote?
When he uses the words, “In Birmingham they love the governor” (Metro Lyrics, 2011),
Lynyrd
Skynyrd
is referring to Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Or
It can be argued that “the ultimate irony of "Sweet Home Alabama" is that for so many, the song's implied put down of Neil Young was NOT meant as criticism but as support of Young's anti-racism”(
Thrasher’s Wheat
,
n.d
.).Slide10
Plagiarism
If you copy someone’s words or ideas without giving them credit (using them as your own), this is plagiarismSlide11
How to avoid plagiarism
Cite your sources
Use APA Citation
In your text
On a separate reference pageSlide12
What should you cite to avoid plagiarism?
Direct quotes
Summaries
Paraphrases
Videos
Movies
Music
Art (clip art, photos)
News articles
Graphs
Charts
Cartoons
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As you research for your project…
Always write down your sources for:
Books
Pictures
Photos
Articles
Web pages
Recipes
Videos
Songs
Movies
Graphs
Surveys
charts
What should you write down?
Title of book
Title of article
Author’s name(s)
Date published/written
Type of sources – i.e. movie, video, website, map, photo
Published
url
Date
url
last updated
City of publication
Page numbers