Paraphrasing and Quoting

If you are including information from a source, what is the correct way to include it in your paper?

• Paraphrase or quotation marks

• Name the author

• No need to do anything

• Plagiarism

What should you do after you've written a paraphrase?

• Put your sentence in quotation marks

• Check your paraphrase against the original material

• Close the website your were copying from

• Write three questions based on the passage.

What is the best synonym for paraphrase?

• invent

• copy

• plagiarize

• restate

When should you use quotation marks? " "

• When you want to remember a particular piece of information

• When you want to offer your own opinion on a text

• When you have copied the exact words of a website of book

In your own words, rewrite this sentence: The world's longest venomous snake is the King Cobra.

• The King Cobra is the world's longest venomous snake.

• The venomous snake is a world snake.

• The world has long venomous King Cobra snakes.

What should you do while reading a text that you are going to paraphrase later?

• cross out any words you don't know

• scribble over sentences you've already read

• ignore the main idea

• look up any unfamiliar words in the dictionary

Copying and pasting without citing the source is plagiarism.

• True

• False

If you want to use someone's exact words, you don't have to use quotes as long as you cite them.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is always wrong.

• True

• False

What is the best paraphrase of this sentence:

There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet within our solar system.

• There are more volcanoes on venus than any other planet within our solar system.

• In our solar system, the planet Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet.

• Venus has more planets than volcanoes in the solar system