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Module
6: Evaluating>> Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing
Plagiarism
ranges from copying word-for-word to paraphrasing a passage without credit
and changing only a few words. Below is a sentence from a book. The original
source is followed by its use in three student papers.
Evaluate
each version and decide whether you think it is plagiarism. Then, check
your thoughts by clicking on the Feedback button.
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Original
Passage
Still,
the telephone was only a convenience, permitting
Americans to do more casually and with less effort
what they had already been doing before.1
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Abbie
The
telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do more casually
and with less effort what they had already been doing before.
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Brian
Daniel J.
Boorstin argues that the telephone was only a convenience, permitting
Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they
had already been doing before.
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Chad
Daniel J. Boorstin has noted that most Americans considered
the telephone as simply "a convenience," an instrument
that allowed them "to do more casually and with less effort
what they had already been doing before."1
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1.
(Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
page 390. Excerpt, examples, and commentary below are from James
M. McCrimmon, Writing With A Purpose, page 499.)
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