Paraphrase/Quotation Exercise

This assignment consists of selections from various pages and readings in your research paper sources. If you have been doing the research properly, you have already begun reading all of this material. However, reading material and understanding material are not the same thing. You MUST understand an author in order to paraphrase them effectively. You cannot simply skim these readings and expect to do good paraphrases. Be sure to read and re-read until you do understand.

Find any 5 pieces of information that you have found from your research sources and do the following to them:

1. Repeat 1 to 3 appropriate sentences from the source that you think you might want to use in your research paper. Write them out EXACTLY as they are written in the original. If you are using a computer, feel free to cut and paste them from the original.
   
   
2. Take one piece of pertinent information from the original information and write a direct quote using those exact words, making sure to properly introduce and punctuate the information.
   
   
3. Take the same information that you've just quoted and write it again, paraphrasing it into your own words.
   
   

Example:

Original source (http://unisci.com/stories/20013/0813012.htm): "Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuels nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces."

Direct Quote: According to at least one scientist from Cornell University, "It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces."

Paraphrase: No matter how the government adjusts corn or oil prices, it simply takes more energy to make ethanol than it produces when used.

Note:

• You are using each piece of information 3 times, in 3 different ways.
• You are to do this for any 5 pieces of information from your research sources, your choice
• Be sure to identify the original source
• Be sure to give enough of the original that you have room to move, but don't use too much, either.
• Be sure to punctuate the direct quote properly
• Be sure to setup and introduce the direct quote properly
• Make sure that the paraphrase is still accurate, but is phrased in your own language.
• Don't worry at this time about citing the paraphrase or quote using parentheses ( ). We'll get to that with the next assignment
  

Using the online form or submitting a hardcopy by mail or email, turn in these 5 sets of quotes and paraphrases to your instructor for evaluation.