Paraphrase Introduction Quiz

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Paraphrasing

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(b) Summarizing

,

(c) Quoting

,

(d) Paraphrasing & Summarizing

• shorten to main ideas

• how and what are important

• keep the same ideas

• change sentences significantly

• use quotation marks

• keep same length

• copy exactly

• use your own words

Strategies for paraphrasing include...

• using some of the same words

• finding synonyms

• keeping the sentence structure the same

• changing the sentence structure

Paraphrasing can be used to restate longer texts.

• True

• False

Strategies for paraphrasing include...

• using new forms of the same wods

• copying the same phrasing and order

• changing the word order

• adding your opinion

"There’s long been a notion that, because money is a prerequisite for survival and security, everyone should be assured some income just for being alive."

Which paraphrase is best?

• There has been a long-standing idea that, as money is necessary for staying alive and secure, everyone should receive some income just for being alive.

• There has existed a notion for a while that, due to money being vital for survival and safety, everyone should be guaranteed a certain income solely for being alive.

• Given the essential role of money in ensuring survival and security, a long held belief is that there should be a guaranteed basic income for everyone.

"Surprisingly, the core idea behind Alaska’s dividends is over two centuries old."

Which paraphrase is best?

• It's quite a shock that the central concept behind Alaska's dividends goes back more two centuries.

• Alaska's program of paying dividends to all citizens originated, surprisingly, more than two hundred years ago.

• Astonishingly, the foundational idea behind Alaska's dividend program dates back over two hundred years.

"Alaskans don’t see their dividends as welfare or redistribution."

Which paraphrase is best?

• Alaskans do not view their dividends as a form of social welfare or wealth redistribution.

• The people of Alaska do not perceive their dividends as welfare or income redistribution.

• In Alaska, dividends are not considered redistribution of wealth or welfare.

Create a paraphrase of this sentence:

According to several surveys, most Alaskans consider their dividends to be their rightful share of their state’s natural wealth.

​ (a)   reveal that ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   .

• Several surveys
• Based on several surveys
• Alaska's dividends from state resources
• most Alaskans
• are considered
• view
• rightful portion of their state's natural ri
• rightfully theirs as citizens

"The current tendencies of capitalism to widen inequality and devour nature would be self-corrected."

Which paraphrase is best?

• A natural self-correction of capitalism's present trend of harming the environment and exacerbating inequality would result.

• The current inclinations of capitalism to exacerbate inequality and harm the environment would undergo self-correction.

• The present trends in capitalism, which exacerbate inequality and harm the environment, would rectify themselves.

Original: There’s no stigma attached to them, and any attempt by politicians to reduce them is seen as an encroachment on legitimate property income.

Problematic paraphrase: There is no social stigma associated with these dividends, and any effort by politicians to decrease them is perceived as an intrusion on lawful property income.

Match the following errors with their explanations:

• same sentence structure

• There..., and any

• same phrase except one word substitution

• by politicians to decrease them

• exact wording of three + words

• stigma associated with these dividends

• same order/only synonym substitutions

• them is seen as an