Paraphrasing

What is paraphrasing?

• Putting someone else's speech or writing into your own words.

• Copying someone else's writing word for word

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the first thing you need to do?

• Write the summary

• Pick a book with a good title

• Read the source carefully to make sure you understand

• Nothing

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Why is it important to close the book when writing the paraphrase?

• So you can make yourself remember the information

• So you write the wrong information

• Because Tim said to

• To make sure you aren't copying the information. 

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who should the paraphrase sound like?

• The author of the original text. 

• ME.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Why should you always note the source from where you got your information?

• A. Authors of the source will get more money.

• B. It makes it easier to plagiarize.

• C. It prevents you from plagiarizing.

• D. It is really not important.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is plagiarism? (Choose 2) 

• A. Copying someone's work word for word. 

• B. Putting someone's ideas into your own words. 

• C. Taking someone's ideas without giving them credit. 

• D. Summarizing someone else's ideas in your own words.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why should you always write where you obtained your information? (CHOOSE 2 RESPONSES!)

• A. It can allow the author of the source to contact you and discuss the changes in wording.

• B. If you don't, it makes it seem like all the ideas in the report are strictly your own.

• C. It lets people know that you really are not a good writer, so you have to borrow someone else's words.

• D.  Most people would assume that you are the one who came up with all the creative ideas in your report. 

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

You can also paraphrase spoken material like speeches and lectures by first listening closely and writing down key words and ideas and then..... 

• A. recording all that was spoken.

• B. talking to a friend about what you heard.

• C. putting the main message in your own words.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Try it out! Paraphrase what Martin Luther King Jr said in the clip. 

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism? Fill in the definition for each term below.

Paraphrasing means       

Plagiarism means      

 

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9