My personal reaction to this chapter was that this has been what I have been told my whole life, every time I have to write a paper especially a research paper. I am always told to paraphrase, or use my own words, when I am using information from another source unless I cite the source at the end of my paper. I have also always been told to summarize my information which is basically paraphrasing.
When using a quote you have to use the writers words just as they appear in the article or source. You would have to put quotation marks around this, and then at the end put the authors last name and page numbers in parentheses at the end of the sentence. I would advise you to not use too many of these. If the reader wanted to hear the other persons words they would have just looked up that article instead of reading yours.
My professional reaction is the idea of synthesizing information. This basically means to blend the information from the source with your own ideas and interpretations, as the book stated. Synthesizing is basically using summaries, paraphrasing, quotes, and your own ideas when you are writing. This way you are finding facts and information to support your ideas not the other way around.
Plagiarism is copying another words exactly without giving them any credit at all. This is illegal and will never be a good way for you to write a paper, so just don't do it.
Written by - Kelsey Robison
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