paraphrasing (project two)

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THE IMPORTANCE OFPARAPHRASINGAvoiding plagiarism and using your own

words


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When writers use material from other sources, they must acknowledge this source. Not doing so is calledplagiarism, which means using without credit the ideas or expressions of another. You are thereforecautioned (1) against using, word for word, without acknowledgement, phrases, sentences,paragraphs, etc. from the printed or manuscript materials of others; (2) against using with onlyslight changes the materials of another; (3) against using the general plan, the main headings, ora rewritten for of someone elses material. These cautions apply to the work of other students as wellas to the published work of professional writers.

-Purdue English Department definition of plagiarism

Paraphrasing carefully helps you to avoidplagiarizing.


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How to use your sources:

QUOTINGThere are three ways to include the research you do intoyour final paper: quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

Quoting and summarizing are fairly straightforward, although wewill go over the basics of using quotations in an academicresearch paper later in the composition process. For now, as

you are taking notes, you should consider maintainingsomething as a direct quote for the following three reasons, inother situations you should paraphrase.

1. When the wording is so memorable or expresses a point sowell that you cannot improve it or shorten it withoutweakening it,

2. When the author is a respected authority whose opinionssupport your own ideas particularly well, and

3. When an author challenges or disagrees with others in thefield. (559-560)


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SUMMARY

A summary is just a synopsis or condensed

version of a piece of evidenceyou might use

a summary if you plan on heavily referring to

one text, or if youre topic focuses on one popculture text like a book or movie. The skills

well work on for developing paraphrases

today can be applied to summaries as well.


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PARAPHRASING

Paraphrases involve

putting an authors

material (including

major and minorpoints, usually in the

order theyre

presented in the

original) into your own

words and sentence

structures.

(561)


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A PARAPHRASE IS

Your own rendition of essential information and

ideas expressed by someone else, presented

in a new form.

One legitimate way (when accompanied byaccurate documentation) to borrow from a

source.

A more detailed restatement than a summary,focusing concisely on a single idea.


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A PARAPHRASING EXAMPLE

PARAPHRASED TEXT:

How much higher skyscrapers of the future will

rise than the present world marvel, the Sears

Tower, is unknown. However, the design of onetwice as tall is already on the boards, and an

architect, Robert Sobel, thinks we currently have

sufficient know-how to build a skyscraper with

over 500 stories (Bachman 15).


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