Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is:

• Write the same information

• Explaining something in your own words

• Create new information

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.

What is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?
Brazil is the largest country in South America and Suriname is the smallest. 

• The biggest country in South America is Brazil, while the tiniest is Suriname.
• Suriname and Brazil the largest and smallest countries in Brazil.
• The largest country is Brazil and the smallest country is Suriname, and they are both countries in Brazil.
• The two countries of Brazil and Suriname are two countries in Brazil.

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?
Dragonflies have six legs, but they can’t walk. 

• Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk, and I think that this is odd.
• Dragonflies have six legs.
• Although Dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk at all.
•  Even though they have six legs, dragonflies can’t walk. 

How could you paraphrase the following sentence: "Moby, the orange robot, is best friends with a boy named Tim."

• Moby, the orange robot, is best friends with a man named Tim.

• Tim is best friends with an orange robot named Moby.

• Moby is an orange robot.

• Tim and Moby are friends.

Which of these is plagiarism?

• giving credit to the author of a book

• presenting someone else’s ideas as your own

• telling your friend about a great book you just read

• writing a short summary of a text

What is a paraphrase?

• a restatement of the information of a text in your own words

• a persuasive argument about the information in a text

• a genre of storytelling

• an essay about a specific topic