Paraphrasing

1. When do you have to cite your sources?

• We do not have to cite sources.

• Only if your teacher tells you to.

• Whenever you use information from an author or a reference source.

• Only when you have time.

Choose the sentence that BEST paraphrases this sentence:

A high school student usually has summer reading assignments.

• A high school student always has homework assignments in the summer.

• It is common for students in high school to have summer reading assignments.

• Usually school aged students have summer reading assignments.

• Most summer school students have high school reading to do.

Which is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?

Deserts cover one fifth of the surface of the Earth.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

• One fifth of the Earth's surface is desert.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

• Deserts cover more than half of the Earth's surface.

Plagiarism is:

• Using someone’s s information as your own and citing the source

• Rewriting a story because I brought the book

• Using another’s work as your own without citing the source

1. The 4 R’s of paraphrasing are:

• reword, revise, revist, readmit

• reword, rearrange, realize, recheck

• return, review, reword, rearrange

Change a word form means:

• Change the part of speech of a word in a sentence

• Change a declarative sentence to an exclamatory

• Change a compound sentence to a simple sentence

Which of the following does NOT change the structure of a sentence:

• -ing words, -ly words, -ed words,

• reordering the words in the sentence

• change a singular noun into a plural noun

• Beginning the sentence with a transition

Select the best passive voice example for the active voice sentence

The cashier counted the money

• The cashier said, "I will count the money."

• The money was counted by the cashier.

• The customer asked the cashier to count the money.