NOT Plagiarizing

PARAPHRASING

• A paraphrase is...

•YOUR OWN VERSION of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.

•one legitimate way (when accompanied by accurate documentation) to borrow from a source.

•a more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea.

Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words!!!

If you have three or more words taken right from the original quotation in your paraphrase, you have PLAGIARIZED!

DEFINITION OF PARAPHRASING

ORIGINAL

In The Sopranos, the mob is besieged as much by inner infidelity as it is by the federal government. Early in the series, the greatest threat to Tony's

Family is his own biological family. One of his closest associates turns witness for the FBI, his mother colludes with his uncle to contract a hit on Tony, and his kids click through Web sites that track the federal crackdown

in Tony's gangland.

Fields, Ingrid Walker. “Family Values and Feudal Codes: The Social Politics of

America’s Twenty-First Century Gangster.” Journal of Popular Culture 37.4

(2004). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale Group. Duke U Lib.,

Durham. 8 Dec. 2004.

EXAMPLE

In the first season of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano’s mobster activities are more threatened by members of his biological family than by agents of the federal government. This familial betrayal is multi-pronged. Tony’s closest friend and associate is an FBI informant, his mother and uncle are conspiring to have him killed, and his children are surfing

the Web for information about his activities (Fields).

PARAPHRASED VERSION

• When you paraphrase, you still MUST cite your source in MLA format.

• HOW TO CITE IN YOUR POWERPOINT:• Look at your easybib citation. If your citation includes the

author’s last name, you will put this in parentheses at the end of your paraphrased sentence. If you have page numbers, include these as well.

• If the easybib citation does NOT contain an author’s name, then you must look for the title of the article and put this in parentheses at the end of your paraphrased sentence.

• SEE YOUR AFGHANISTAN PROJECT HANDOUT FOR EXAMPLES!

PARENTHETICAL CITATION

• An in text citation is when you want to mention the author or article title BEFORE you give the paraphrase so you don’t have to use parentheses at the end.

• EXAMPLES• Julia Prewitt Brown states in her article “The Feminist Depreciation of Austen” that __________________.

• • Brown also says ________________________________.

If you cite your information this way, you will not need the parenthetical citation. It’s up to you!

IN TEXT CITATION