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Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Plagiarizing

Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Plagiarizing. Paraphrasing. What is it? Putting something in your own words can be the shorter, the same length or longer than the original goal is not to shorten the original; goal is to restate it in your own words Do you have to cite a paraphrase?

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Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Plagiarizing

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  1. Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Plagiarizing

  2. Paraphrasing What is it? • Putting something in your own words • can be the shorter, the same length or longer than the original • goal is not to shorten the original; goal is to restate it in your own words Do you have to cite a paraphrase? • Yes – you are still using someone else’s ideas

  3. Paraphrasing is useful • It keeps you from quoting too much • You have to think about what you are reading so you have a better understanding of what you are reading (studying)

  4. Practice • Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

  5. Suggested Response • Each year there are 1000 deaths in biking accidents. Head injuries cause 75% of these deaths. Children from 6 to 16 make up 50% of those deaths. Wearing a bike helmet, according to one questionnaire, can reduce head injuries significantly. The helmet acts like a sponge or pillow and protects the head from shock.

  6. Summarizing What is it? • Once again, you are putting the original into your own words. • In addition, your goal is to shorten it significantly by concentrating only on the main points. • Shorten the original by 2/3 Do you have to cite a summary of something? • Yes – you are still using someone else’s ideas

  7. Try these . . . An ignoramus and his/her lucre are readily disjoined. • A fool and his/her money are soon parted. In the absence of the feline race, certain small rodents will give themselves up to various pleasurable pastimes. • When the cat’s away, the mice will play. A plethora of culinary specialists vitiate the liquid in which a variety of nutritional substances have been simmered. • Too many cooks spoil the broth. Impetuous celebrity engenders a purposeless spoilage. • Haste makes waste. A winged and feathered animal in the digital limb is as valuable as duet in the shrubbery. • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The warm-blooded class aves who is governed by promptitude can apprehend the small, elongated, and slender creeping animal. • The early bird catches the worm. Provide the privilege of affranchisement, or I will feel that life is not worth living. • Give me liberty or give me death. A condition characterized by tariness is more desirable than one that is systemiatically marked by eternal absenteeism. • Better late than never.

  8. Quote What is it? • You are quoting something if you copy exactly what another person has written or said • A quote must be identical to the original • A quote is a small part of the original Do you have to cite a quotation? • Absolutely – always – you are using someone’s exact words

  9. How do you type a quote? When he uses the words, “In Birmingham they love the governor” (Metro Lyrics, 2011), LynyrdSkynyrd is referring to Alabama Governor George Wallace. Or It can be argued that “the ultimate irony of "Sweet Home Alabama" is that for so many, the song's implied put down of Neil Young was NOT meant as criticism but as support of Young's anti-racism”(Thrasher’s Wheat, n.d.).

  10. Plagiarism • If you copy someone’s words or ideas without giving them credit (using them as your own), this is plagiarism

  11. How to avoid plagiarism • Cite your sources • Use APA Citation • In your text • On a separate reference page

  12. What should you cite to avoid plagiarism? • Direct quotes • Summaries • Paraphrases • Videos • Movies • Music • Art (clip art, photos) • News articles • Graphs • Charts • Cartoons

  13. As you research for your project… Always write down your sources for: • Books • Pictures • Photos • Articles • Web pages • Recipes • Videos • Songs • Movies • Graphs • Surveys • charts What should you write down? • Title of book • Title of article • Author’s name(s) • Date published/written • Type of sources – i.e. movie, video, website, map, photo • Published • url • Date url last updated • City of publication • Page numbers

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