Paraphrasing and Embedding Information Mrs. Lynn Miller College Composition
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1. Paraphrasing and Embedding Information Mrs. Lynn Miller
College Composition
2. Objectives: Study paraphrasing examples to be able to
paraphrase relevant research without plagiarizing content.
Paraphrase a specific passage from a sample article without
plagiarizing. Use templates to embed paraphrased information into
your sentences using APA/MLA formatting without plagiarizing.
Locate database resources on a chosen topic, paraphrase relevant
information, and cite and format the embedded material with 100%
accuracy.
3. First: Read the passage in your source and Identify its main
idea and list the details most relevant to your argument. Original:
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with
hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic
pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus
the shooting. (Source: George Orwell, The Sporting Spirit, The
London Tribune, December 1945, reprinted: George Orwell. Shooting
an Elephant, and Other Essays. (Secker and Warburg, 1950), 194as
quoted online and published on Grounds for Argument
(http://www.groundsforargument.org/drupal) accessed 25 June 2015
How to Paraphrase Fairly, Creative Commons, 1.)
4. Look away from the original and write it out in your own
words: Paraphrase: In his essay, The Sporting Spirit, George Orwell
argues that sport can be just as violent as war. The idea of fair
play, he says, is for serious athletes only a myth. They feel the
same hateful and violent feelings as do soldiers in combat (194, as
qtd. in Grounds for Argument, 1-2).
5. Readers object if your paraphrase is only a quotation in
disguise, like this one: Paraphrase Too Close to the Original: In
his essay, The Sporting Spirit, George Orwell claims that sport has
little to do with fair play. He says that sport leads to the same
feelings of hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and sadistic pleasure
that comes from witnessing violence. Sport is combat without
weapons (194, as qtd. in Grounds for Argument, 2).
6. How to embed or introduce a paraphrase into your own
sentences: Use a phrase, clause, or sentence as in the example
above: In his essay, The Sporting Spirit, George Orwell argues Name
the author of the source at the beginning or internally or at the
end of the sentence Use templates from They Say/I Say: The Moves
That Matter in Academic Writing Mention credentials, publication
information Use verbs to reflect your judgement of the source
Indicate whether the information is generally accepted as factual
or contested
7. Weaving elements of a quotation into your own sentences:
Paraphrased information is underlined: George Orwell understood the
intensity of the professional athlete better than most. We say we
value sportsmanship, but for serious athletes sport has nothing to
do with fair play. They are caught up in the same hatred, jealousy,
boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure
experienced by those engaged in violence. For Orwell, sport is
combat without the weapons (194, Grounds for Argument, 4).
8. Additional Resources: Review of APA/MLA Documentation of
Resources both in text and final pages:
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/index.htm
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ The source for most of this
PowerPoint information and beyond:
http://www.groundsforargument.org/drupal/evidence/sidebar/paraphrase
Another Creative Commons source on paraphrasing and of particular
notice is the instruction about patchwriting:
http://content.easybib.com/students/research-guide/paraphrasing-patchwriting-direct-
quotes/how-to-paraphrase/
9. Your Turnupload to Google Docs-- Locate an article from a
relevant database and write out the original information you would
like to paraphrase; then, follow these steps to paraphrase the
information and weave in quoted material. Provide MLA or APA
citations as well. Upload this assignment to Google Docs in the
shared folder.
10. Blog Reflection: Consider by writing your thoughts about
what makes research relevant and credible. In your paraphrased
example, what claim does the paraphrase support, explain? Also,
explain, how the paraphrase connects to either or both the thesis
or paragraph topic.