Paraphrasing and Synthesizing

What is plagiarism? Check all that apply.

• Using another person's words, images, charts, rhythms, or other expressions of that person's ideas/creativity and failing to give that person credit through proper documentation.

• Getting, buying, or stealing a paper from someone else and submitting it as though you wrote it yourself.

• Paraphrasing—correctly or incorrectly—a passage and failing to  properly document the source.

• Passing off the work or ideas of someone else as your own.

What is paraphrasing?

• Restating a text or speech in your own words while maintaining the original meaning.

• Translating a text word for word into a different language.

• Copying and pasting a text without any changes.

• Summarizing a text by removing important details.

In paraphrasing, you place the paraphrased information within “quotation marks”

• True

• False

Which is NOT a correct paraphrasing technique?

• Using synonyms

• Moving phrases

• Writing down the words exactly as you see them

• changing sentence structures

All paraphrases must be cited

• TRUE

• FALSE

When paraphrasing, you can change the words, sentence structure and the meaning of the original source.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The successful synthesis of research literature is

• a combination of the student's initial thoughts with information from multiple sources from literature

• a combination of the student's initial thoughts with information from a single source from literature

• a list of different ideas

• a list of different authors and the titles of their works

________ means combining multiple ideas to create a new or different perspective. Instead of summarizing, students should put together the ideas and findings from multiple sources to make an overall point.

• Quoting

• Paraphrasing

• Synthesizing

• Researching

What methods could you use to avoid plagiarism? Choose all that apply.

• create a system to keep track of your sourced material while gathering your research

• cut and paste everything into a word document and leave the formatting until the end

• highlight any in-text citation that does not have a source attached to it to remind yourself to find the source before you finish

• while proofreading, double check your in-text citations with the original sources

Teachers have websites and computer programs that tell them if students have plagiarized or not.

• True

• False