Paraphrasing

When paraphrasing, what do you need to do?

• Use the author's words exactly as they appear

• Restate the author using your own words

When quoting or paraphrasing you should always include (a)   before the period to give the author credit.

True or False:

You must always introduce a quote.

• True

• False

Which of the following does this best describe?

Make sure to copy the author’s spelling, capitalization, and grammar exactly as it appears in the source (if you change anything, use brackets → [ ])

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Quoting

• All of the above

Which is true of quoting?

• Put “quotation marks” around the original speaker’s words

• Blend the quote in… or at least introduce using the speaker’s name and a strong, precise verb

• Add the parenthetical citation at the end before the period (Staples)

• All of the above

Give an example of how to properly quote this sentence from Staples' essay...

That was more than a decade ago, I was twenty-two years old.

Paraphrase this sentence from Staples' essay...

Where fear and weapons meet – and they often do in urban America – there is always the possibility of death.

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

• plagiarizing
• writing
• cheating
• paraphrasing

Which of the following statements best describes how to paraphrase information?    

• Copy the sentence and then put it in quotations.
• Copy the sentence, put it in quotations, and cite the source.
•  Determine key words in the sentence and replace one of two of them with words that have similar meanings. 
• Determine key words in the sentence and replace most of them with words that have similar meanings.  Rewrite the sentence in your own words.

If you use your own words, you should use quotation marks when paraphrasing.

• true

• false