SMG “Quoting, Paraphrasing, or Summarizing”

• plagiarism: refers to the unacknowledged use of another’s words, ideas, or information.
• indicate the source of any borrowed information or ideas you use in your essay, whether you have paraphrased, summarized, or quoted.
• you can change quotations to emphasize particular words, omit irrelevant information, to insert information, or to make the quotation conform grammatically to your sentence.
• use brackets around an insertion or a change needed to make a quotation conform grammatically to your sentence
• use italics to emphasize
• use ellipsis marks for mistakes that are to be taken out
• introduce quotes either using a colon, comma, or “that”
• Paraphrasing is when the writer restates all the relevant information from a passage, without any additional comments or any suggestion of agreement or disagreement with the source’s ideas
• when paraphrasing you can not borrow too many words or phrases
• Summarizing is presenting the main ideas of a source, leaving out examples and details.