Avoiding Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism:

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​Understanding Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting

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​ENG B1A: Professor Rachal

Summarize: taking ONLY the important parts of the text and writing them in chronological order. You can use SWBST or BME strategy when writing the summary.

​Paraphrase: taking an idea or text and putting it in your OWN words. It is not copying word for word or summarizing; it's simply REWORDING the information.

​Quiz Time

Identify the correct terms and usage for summary, paraphrasing, quotes, and plagiarism.

Multiple Choice

When you steal the words or ideas from another person without giving them credit is known as what?

• paraphrasing

• quoting

• summariznig

• plagiarizing

Multiple Choice

What is a summary?

• the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.

• a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words

• Shortened version of the author’s words

• the representation of an utterance that is introduced by a quotative marker

Multiple Choice

When do you summarize?

• When the author’s ideas and facts are more important than the language

• When several kinds of information from the same source and author are provided over numerous pages

• When you intend to analyze the quotation

• to establish your opinion of the topic being discussed in the text

Multiple Choice

What is paraphrasing?

• expressing your own ideas in your own words

• a brief statement of the main points

• a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.

• the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.

Multiple Select

When do you paraphrase?

• When you need to discuss details from the source rather than main ideas

• When your ideas are better than the author's

• When the author’s ideas and facts are more important than the language

• When the language of the original is technical or potentially confusing and/or distracting

Multiple Select

An effective paraphrase

• includes quotation marks to identify any unique term

• includes your opinion about the topic

• accurately expresses all the essential information

• uses word for word what the author has stated

Multiple Choice

What is a quote?

• A line from the text

• Word for word what the author has stated

• Your original thought about the text

• The author's claim

Multiple Select

When do we quote?

• When the author’s exact words will support your ideas better than a paraphrase or summary

• To meet the wod requiement for an essay

• When you intend to analyze the quotation

• When a respected authority speaks directly to one of your main point

Multiple Choice

When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what?

• plagiarizing

• summarizing

• paraphrasing

Multiple Choice

What's the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?

• Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. ... Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

• Summarizing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. Paraphrasing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

• paraphrasing

  allows you to share the exact phrases of the author, while summarizing

  allow you to show your understanding and interpretation of a text.

Multiple Choice

What's the difference between quoting and summarizing?

• Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. ... Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

• Summarizing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. Paraphrasing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

• Quoting passages allows you to share the specific words and phrases of another author, while summarizing allow you to show your understanding and interpretation of a text.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage. Which sentence  best RESTATES the ideas in the passage?  

"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."

• Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first television images were used thirty years earlier.

• Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.

Multiple Choice

Which is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?
Dragonflies have six legs, but they can’t walk. 

• Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk, and I think that this is odd.

• In addition, Dragonflies have six legs and they cannot walk at all.

•  Even though they have six legs, dragonflies can’t walk. 

Multiple Choice

Choose the best paraphrase of the following statement:
“According to the National Sleep Foundation, kids ages 6 to 13 should be getting between nine and 11 hours of sleep per night.”

• Researchers at The National Sleep Foundation believe kids ages 6 to 13 do not get enough sleep.

• According to the National Sleep Foundation, kids need lots of sleep.

• The National Sleep Foundation suggests nine to 11 hours of sleep each night for children between the ages of 6 and 13.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and decide if it is paraphrased or plagiarized.

Original: Common beliefs can change over time. For example, most people once thought the Sun orbited around the Earth. Smith pg 6

Paraphrase Attempt: People believed at one time that the Sun orbited the Earth. Nowadays, people know the opposite, showing that common beliefs don’t stay the same (Smith 6).

• Paraphrased

• Plagiarism

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and decide if it is paraphrased or plagiarized.

Original Passage: Frodo is no Arthur, and that, in a way, is Tolkien's point. He is a little man, not a national hero. The glorious days of epic and romance are long past, and the actions of hobbits, of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances have superseded the larger-than-life heroes, their deeds, their chivalry and courtly valor. Nevertheless, the same poignance and sense of loss pervade both stories.*

Paraphrase: The character of Frodo is not much like King Arthur, because Tolkien is making that a point. As a hobbit Frodo is an ordinary person who lives long after the days of romantic, epic heroes. Although he lives through amazing events, Frodo is still ordinary, not larger-than-life. Nonetheless, both Tolkien’s writings and the stories of Arthur share a sense of loss.

• Paraphrase

• Plagiarized