Summarizing and Paraphrasing

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PARAPHRASING

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putting information into your own words

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What are the characteristics of A GOOD PARAPHRASE?

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All of the Above

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"In short, adoption is a ubiquitous social institution in American society, creating invisible relationships with biological and adoptive kin that touch far more people than we imagine.” What is the best paraphrase of this sentence?

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Adoption touches a surprising number of people throughout American society.

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Is the student's version a correct example of paraphrasing or an example of plagiarism?

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The student's version is a correct example of paraphrasing.

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Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.
Jet lag is a problem suffered by many flight attendants, pilots, and frequent flyers. When people travel rapidly across numerous time zones, as they do when flying long distances, they sometimes develop a condition called jet lag. These long trips disturb normal body rhythms. After a trip, travelers may have trouble falling asleep at night and staying awake during the day. Experts advise travelers flying eastbound to go to bed later than usual before traveling and those flying west to go to bed earlier than usual. These changes should help minimize the effects of jet lag.
Which statement best summarizes all the main points in this paragraph?

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Jet lag is a problem for people who fly a lot. To prevent jet lag, people can change the time they go to sleep before they take a trip.

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What is the best summary of this advertisement?

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A small newspaper is looking to hire writers. They would like someone who is detail-oriented, can work under pressure, and have flexible hours.

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Which of the following best summarizes this paragraph? When you imagine a desert, what do you see? If you are like most people, you probably picture sand, sand, and more sand. But did you know that only one-fifth of the world's largest non-polar desert, the Sahara, is covered by sand? The rest of the 3.5 million square miles of the desert, in Africa, is made up of rock and rubble. Most people think the Sahara is covered by sand because of the many pictures of the sand dunes of the desert. The sand dunes are very expansive—they measure over one hundred miles wide and two hundred feet tall. These great sand dunes, called whalebacks, are what photographers and filmmakers focus on when they film the Sahara. So, naturally, the image of the Sahara as a sand-covered wasteland is what most people picture.

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Many people think the Sahara Desert is covered by sand, but it is not. The Sahara is made mostly of rock and rubble, though it has hundreds of miles of sand dunes.

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What can you paraphrase? Options: a single word or a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, an entire page, all of the above.

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all of the above

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A main idea is

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The big idea that the paragraph is about

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Repeating the information word for word, or changing a word here and there, leaving most of the text and the sentence order the same is called

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plagiarizing