Understanding & Avoiding Plagiarism - Innovative Educators

Slide 11: Using the InformationThere are three different ways that you can useinformation that you gain from your sources: quoting,paraphrasing, and summarizing.I’m just going to take a moment now to explain whateach of those are.Quoting is when you use the exact words that youfind in another source and you put quotations marksaround them.Paraphrasing is when you take someone else’swords and you put them into your own words andyour own style, so instead of just writing exactly theway that the original author wrote it, you would beblending it more into your own paragraph and theway that you’re doing your own writing.Summarizing is very similar to paraphrasing exceptthat it involves taking a large amount of informationand boiling it down into a shorter amount ofinformation.So say you’re writing a paper where you wererequired to do a review of a journal article. Insteadof writing everything that was mentioned in thatPublished by Articulate Presenterwww.articulate.com