Objective: The student will demonstrate the ability to accurately paraphrase and document a given passage.
Begin by reading the article by Katie Baker. Now focus on the last two paragraphs of the article:
For Fromme, the facts are the facts, regardless of whose story they support — or who’s paying her to help defend them. Like it or not, “you can’t say just because somebody can’t remember what they did, they weren’t acting intentionally and voluntarily at the time,” Fromme said over our pink cocktails.
“It can be difficult for people to wrap their brain around,” she said. “People love black and white. Unfortunately, life isn’t that tidy, is it?” Now paraphrase the above passage and upload it here.
When you paraphrase, remember
--All paraphrases must begin with an author tag: eg. Smith (2016) writes.....
--All paraphrases must end with the paragraph or page number (if the original is a pdf from the Cloud) in a parenthetical citation: eg. (par. 6) OR (p. 3).
DID YOU KNOW: Artificial Intelligence (eg. ChatGPT) often fails to include author tags and citations when paraphrasing information? Also were you aware that AI quite often plagiarizes as well?
The purpose of documentation is so that the reader can check the original passages for evaluative purposes; paraphrased information that is not introduced and cited is a "hallucination" as far as I am concerned. It is imperative that you use author tags and citations with even though content is written in your own words. And pay close attention to the three word rule when writing paraphrases.
--Paraphrases should not cover more than 1 lengthy paragraph or 2-3 very short paragraphs.
-- Remember when you paraphrase you are articulating ALL of the authors ideas. Since paraphrases will quite probably be longer than the original passage, you don't want to attempt to paraphrase too much information in one passage. If your paraphrase of this passage is not longer than 76 words, you have left something out.
--Paraphrases ARE NOT enclosed in quotation marks. Quotation marks indicate that what appears between them is copied word for word from an original source. The paraphrase is written in your own words and in your own sentence structure.
--Brackets and ellipsis marks are NOT used in paraphrases. They are used to signal the reader that changes have been made to a copied passage. None of the paraphrase is copied; essentially the entire paraphrase is changed and clarified.
--Remember the three word rule. If you copy more than three consecutive works, you must enclose that passage in quotation marks. You should not quote more than 10% of the original passage (7 words) in a paraphrase.
--You also cannot simply copy the original sentence structure and substitute words. This is plagiarism of syntax or mosaic plagiarism.
--Anyone, even those people who have not read the original article, should be able to understand the paraphrase. Don't reword the original passage. Rewrite it so that is clear to the reader.
Use the attached grading rubric as a guide to writing your paraphrase.
In the following think it through video, I have walked you through how I would approach this assignment. Captions are unavailable and it is difficult to read the text on the screen. This is by design. I want you to follow my method but write your paraphrase. Have your passage and something to take notes as you "listen" to the video below.
