Blog Post #7 - BBG 7

Chapter 7, “Integrating & Documenting Sources”, discussed quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and avoiding plagiarism. If you want to use the author’s own words to emphasize a point, you can take a segment from the text and put quotations around it. But, you still have to give the author credit by including his or her name. However, in paraphrasing you do not quote or write word for word from the text. You reiterate the main points of the text in our own words while including similar details that were used by the author. Then if you do not want to be guilty for plagiarism you must include an in-text citation and a works cited. When we summarize we do not use details from the text, like we would when paraphrasing. To summarize, you would break down the text into your own words and it should be much shorter than the original text. Then you would include the authors name to give him or her credit for the original work.