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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.

Have students work with a partner to identify paraphrasing and plagiarism in a teacher-created text.

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to integrate information obtained from sources into their own writing. Students are expected to know the difference between and paraphrasing and plagiarizing.

A key part of the research process is integrating information obtained from research material into one’s own writing. The ethical use of information requires that students identify the difference between plagiarism (presenting another author’s words or ideas as one’s own without credit) and paraphrasing (putting information from the source in one’s own words). Paraphrasing from a text restates the key information in a different way and changes the vocabulary, structure, and sometimes voice of the original.