WHAT IS PARAPHRASING
The following is a paraphrase of the given passage: The risk of health problems such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory problems, and vascular disease can go down for smokers who decide to quit smoking. Quitting also improves their lung function and circulation by up to 30 percent. What can be added to improve this paraphrase and to avoid plagiarism?
Acknowlegdge "Center for Disease Control and Prevention"as the source of information
What kind of paraphrasing is used when the writer changes parts of the sentence to lessen interruption and confusion in order to make the sentence simpler?
Clause reduction
Which of the following is true about idea plagiarism?
Idea plagiarism does not properly acknowledge the source of the information
What is the skill of restating a passage or sentence in one's own words?
Paraphrasing
Which of the following properly paraphrases the given passage?
The image of the unicorn has changed over the course of the Middle Ages. It has become an image of a horse with a single horn and can only be hunted when it is attracted and tamed by a virgin
Chris was in a hurry to wrap up his research paper so that he could go and watch videos online instead. In his rush, he forgot to add "according to the author," before typing an idea that he took from an article. What kind of plagiarism did he accidentally commit?
idea plagiarism
When Abby's teacher typed in the first five words from her term paper on an internet search engine, she saw that Abby's term paper was completely lifted from a website. What kind of plagiarism did Abby commit?
verbatim plagiarism
What form of plagiarism is committed when the writer changes some of the words from the source text?
word order
Ben's research proposal is due in a few days, but he has not read the required number of references for his research paper. He copied a paragraph from an article and changed the word means to refers and the word Earth to world. What kind of plagiarism was he committing?
word order plagiarism
Which of the following is false about paraphrasing?
you may change the words and retain the original order of the sentence
