Analyzing Skills Quiz

What is the definition of paraphrasing?

• Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own

• Copying something directly from an original source

• Putting what you have read into your own words

• Writing a short paragraph that summarizes the original piece

What is an advantage of paraphrasing?

• It helps you compare two sources

• It captures the importance of an idea accurately

• It prevents you from plagiarizing

• It helps you remember the content of the piece

What are the important notes for paraphrasing?

• Use more than three words that appeared together in the original piece

• Retain all the essential information of the original

• Never substitute vocabulary or rearrange sentence structure

• Copy and paste the original information

What is the definition of summarizing?

• Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own

• Copying something directly from an original source

• Putting what you have read into your own words

• Writing a short paragraph that summarizes the original piece

What is an advantage of summarizing?

• It helps you compare two sources

• It captures the importance of an idea accurately

• It prevents you from plagiarizing

• It helps you remember the content of the piece

What are the important notes for summarizing?

• Use more than three words that appeared together in the original piece

• Copy word for word the original piece

• Never substitute vocabulary or rearrange sentence structure

• Keep only the key details and maintain the order of ideas

What is the definition of quoting?

• Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own

• Copying something directly from an original source

• Putting what you have read into your own words

• Writing a short paragraph that summarizes the original piece

What is an advantage of quoting?

• It helps you compare two sources

• It captures the importance of an idea accurately

• It prevents you from plagiarizing

• It helps you remember the content of the piece

What are the important notes for quoting?

• Quotations are not only used for pieces of information

• Quotations give a "Stylistic" feel

• Quoting something can capture the importance of an idea

• A short quote uses italics instead of Quotations.

What is the definition of plagiarism?

• Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own

• Putting what you have read into your own words

• Writing a short paragraph that summarizes the original piece