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

Welcome to your Week 10 Start Here page.

Why this matters

A nursing student charting what a patient said, a reporter quoting a city council member, and a project manager passing a client's request to the team all decide when to use someone's exact words and how to show whose idea it was.

In plain language

Once you have chosen your sources, you have to bring them into your own sentences without losing track of whose words and ideas are whose. This week you learn three honest ways to do that. A quotation (a source's exact words in quotation marks) keeps the wording, a paraphrase (one passage restated in your own words and your own sentence shape) keeps the idea, and a summary keeps the gist of something longer. You also learn to spot patchwriting (keeping a source's sentence and swapping in synonyms), which counts as plagiarism even when you cite the source. You practice on a short, out-of-copyright passage from a 1918 style manual and on the running draft's quotation from a real study.

• Already covered: Week 2 taught summary; Week 9 chose the running draft's sources.
• This week: quotation, paraphrase, summary, the signal phrase, and patchwriting.
• How they connect: you bring chosen sources into your own sentences honestly.
• Where we're going next: Week 11, MLA Documentation, explains the citation rules.

Focus

How do I use a source's words and ideas while keeping my own voice and giving credit?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] choose among quotation, paraphrase, and summary
• [ ] lead in with a signal phrase and a fitting verb
• [ ] tell a paraphrase from patchwriting by covering the source
• [ ] check a chatbot's quotation against the real text

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 10 (about 45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes) and the practice set (about 20 minutes).
3. Do the Writing Studio (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment.
4. Take the quiz.

Checkpoint: paraphrase one sentence with the source covered, then compare skeletons.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor early if a step snags.

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