Course: English Composition (ENGL 1A) · Silver Oak University (fictional sample) · Prof. Lindgren
Module: Week 10 of 16 · Fall 2026 · in-person, two 75-minute sessions
Objective covered: Objective 5 — Find, evaluate, and integrate credible sources — quoting, paraphrasing, and synthesizing without plagiarizing. · SLO B (source-based research & academic integrity)

This file holds two pieces: (A) the Module 10 Overview page ("Start Here") and (B) the Welcome Announcement that drips out when the module opens. Dates below assume a Tuesday/Thursday session pattern with Week 10 meeting Tue Nov 3 and Thu Nov 5, and end-of-week work due Sunday Nov 8, 11:59 p.m. Adjust the day-of-week and times to match your section.

(A) Module 10 Overview — Start Here

Welcome to Week 10: Integrating Sources — Quoting, Paraphrasing & Avoiding Plagiarism

This is your home base for the week. Read it first, then work the checklist below from top to bottom. Everything you need is linked inside the module.

Last week you learned to find and judge sources. This week you learn what to do with one once you've got it — how to bring another writer's words and ideas into your paper honestly and skillfully. There are exactly three moves: quote (use the source's exact words, in quotation marks), paraphrase (restate one passage in your own words and structure), and summarize (boil a longer passage down to its main point). All three need a signal phrase ("According to Holloway…") and an attribution — because in a writing course, ideas get credited, not just direct quotes.

And this week names the most dangerous trap in all of academic writing: patchwriting — changing a few words of a source while keeping its sentence and calling it a paraphrase. That isn't paraphrasing; it's plagiarism. We'll look at a real, side-by-side example of an acceptable paraphrase versus a patchwritten one so you can see — and feel — the difference.

A note on our examples (the load-bearing habit of this course): so that nobody's words are ever faked, the worked passage we quote and paraphrase all week is a short, clearly-labeled sample source written for this course — Dana Holloway, "The Attention Economy and the Student Reader," a made-up article in a made-up magazine used only as practice text. When you work with real sources in your essay, the same rule is absolute: copy any quotation word-for-word from the real text, and never paste a quotation a chatbot hands you without checking it against the source.

The week's big question

"How do I bring a source's words and ideas into my paper — honestly, in my own voice, and giving credit — without crossing the line into plagiarism?"

By Friday you'll be able to choose quote vs. paraphrase vs. summary on purpose, drop in a signal phrase, write a paraphrase that's genuinely yours, and spot a patchwritten one a mile away.

By the end of this week, you can…

Use this as a checklist. If you can do all four out loud, you're ready for the quiz.

• [ ] Choose the right move — decide when to quote, when to paraphrase, and when to summarize, and explain why.
• [ ] Introduce a source with a signal phrase — "As Holloway argues…," "According to the report…" — so the reader always knows whose idea it is before they hit it.
• [ ] Paraphrase acceptably — restate a passage in your own words and your own sentence structure, with attribution — and tell that apart from patchwriting (swapping a few synonyms into the source's sentence), which is plagiarism.
• [ ] Attribute ideas, not just quotes — explain why a paraphrase or a summary still needs a citation, and what counts as common knowledge that doesn't.

What's due this week, and when

Work these in order — each one gets you ready for the next.

Heads-up on the AI work: this week the AI-critique moment is at its most important all term. Ask a chatbot to "give me a quote about X from a source" and it will very often hand you a confident, perfectly formatted quotation — and an author and title to go with it — that does not exist. It invents the quote and invents the source. Your job this week is to treat every AI-supplied quote and citation as unverified until you've found it word-for-word in the real text. The tool drafts; the writer verifies.

Late policy reminder: 10% off per day late. If life happens, reach out before the deadline — I'd much rather hear from you early.

How to succeed this week

• Lead with the idea, not the jargon. "Integrating a source" just means: bringing someone else's words or ideas into your paper, in a way that's honest and clearly marked. The three moves — quote, paraphrase, summarize — are how you do it.
• Memorize one tiny hook. "Quote the words · paraphrase the passage · summarize the gist — and credit all three."
• The patchwriting test. Cover the source. Write your version from memory. Then check it against the original. If your sentence still walks in the source's footsteps — same order, same skeleton, a few words swapped — it's patchwriting, and that's plagiarism, citation or no citation.
• Quote exactly, or don't quote. A quotation is a photograph of the source's words — every word, in quotation marks, copied from the real text. If you're working from memory or from a chatbot, you're not quoting; you're guessing.
• When in doubt, cite. Over-quoting hides your thinking; under-crediting steals someone's. The safe habit: if an idea isn't yours and isn't common knowledge, name where it came from.

You don't need anything for this week beyond Week 9's source-finding move — just a willingness to put things in your own words and to give credit honestly. Come to class ready to argue about whether an AI that rewrites your sentence is helping you or quietly taking over your voice. See you Tuesday.

(B) Welcome Announcement — Module 10

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Subject: Week 10 — quote it, paraphrase it, summarize it (and catch the AI that fakes a source) 📑

Hi everyone,

Last week you learned how to find a good source. This week is the other half of the skill — what to actually do with one. There are exactly three honest moves, and a writer chooses among them on purpose: quote (the source's exact words, in quotation marks), paraphrase (one passage, fully in your words and sentence structure), and summarize (a longer passage boiled down to its point). Each one gets a signal phrase — "According to Holloway…" — so your reader always knows whose idea they're reading.

And this week we name the trap that catches more good students than any other: patchwriting. That's when you take a source's sentence, swap a few words for synonyms, and call it a paraphrase. It isn't. It's plagiarism — even if you add a citation — because the sentence is still the source's, wearing a thin disguise. We'll look at an acceptable paraphrase and a patchwritten one side by side so the difference is unmistakable.

So no one's words ever get faked, our worked example all week is a short sample source written for this class (a made-up article, Holloway's "The Attention Economy and the Student Reader"). When you turn to real sources for your essay, the rule is iron: copy every quotation word-for-word from the real text.

Four things not to miss:
1. Two misconceptions we'll kill this week: "if I change a few words it's a paraphrase" (no — that's patchwriting, which is plagiarism) and "I only have to cite direct quotes" (no — paraphrased and summarized ideas need attribution too).
2. Assignment 10 — "Integrate a Source Three Ways" — you'll quote, paraphrase, and summarize, then repair a patchwritten paraphrase. Closes Sun Nov 8.
3. Lecture Tutorial 10, Quiz 10, Discussion 10, and Writing Studio 10 also close Sun Nov 8 — the studio and discussion both work directly with sources and AI.
4. The signature warning, sharpened: ask a chatbot for "a quote about this from a source" and it will frequently invent both the quote and the source — confidently, in perfect MLA format. Catching that — by checking every AI-supplied quote and citation against the real text — is the single most important habit this course teaches, and it's exactly what protects you on the research paper coming in Week 12.

One promise: by Friday you'll never again confuse "I changed some words" with "I paraphrased." You'll be able to take a source and make it genuinely yours — in your voice, with full credit — which is the whole game in academic writing.

Bring your curiosity (and a healthy suspicion of any quote you didn't verify) to class on Tuesday.

See you soon,
Prof. Lindgren