Writing Academic English 4th Edition

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Paraphrase

WritingTechniqueQuestions

1.Howmanysentencesarethereintheoriginal passage?Intheparaphrase?

2. Comparetheoriginalpassageandtheparaphrasesentencebysentence.
   Analyzehowthesentencestructureandwordsdifferbyansweringthe
   followingquestions.
   a. Whatis thefirstwordofthefirstsentenceintheoriginalpassage?
   Wheredoesthiswordappearinfirstsentenceoftheparaphrase?
   b. Whatisthefirstwordofthesecondsentenceintheoriginalpassage?
   Whatwordreplacesit inthesecondsentenceoftheparaphrase?
   c. Whatwordsreplacehavedreamedofinthethird sentence?Whatword
   replacesargumentsin favorofinthefourthsentence?
   d. Whichsentenceintheoriginalbecomestwosentencesintheparaphrase?

Plagiarism It is importanttolearnhowtouseinformationfromoutsidesourceswithoutcom-

mittingplagiarism.Plagiarismis wronglyusingsomeoneelse'swordsorideas,and

it isa seriousoffense.Studentswhoplagiarizemayfaila classorevenbeexpelled

fromschool.

Therearetwokindsofplagiarism.

1.Whenyouuseinfonnationfromanoutsidesourcewithoutcitingthesource

(tellingwhereyougottheinformation),youareguiltyofplagiarism.

2.Evenwhenyouciteyoursource,ifyourparaphraseis toosimilartothe

original,youareguiltyofplagiarism.

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