Week 10 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 10 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 49–63 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (17–21 min total)

• Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing — Writing Better
• Quoting and Paraphrasing — The Writer's Handbook

① Which move fits? Quotation, paraphrase, summary, and the signal phrase

Chapter 10, Section “Meet the three honest moves: quotation, paraphrase, summary” · Session 1, Segment 1, “The three honest moves and the signal phrase” · Remember: quote for wording, paraphrase for one idea, summarize for a whole source, and name the source every time.

• Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing — Writing Better — a walk through the three ways to bring someone else's ideas into your writing, and why each one still needs credit. This builds on Week 5's work with arguing from evidence in the rhetorical modes: now the evidence comes from other writers. (video, 9 min) (captions: automatic)
• Two-Minute Lecture: What is a Signal Phrase — Colburn Classroom — a quick definition of the signal phrase and how it marks where your voice stops and a source's begins. Afterward, write one signal phrase for the running draft's quotation with a verb that fits a study. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)
• Quoting and Paraphrasing — The Writer's Handbook — when to quote and when to paraphrase, a step-by-step method for paraphrasing, and a side-by-side set of successful and unsuccessful paraphrases of the same passage. Compare its unsuccessful versions with the chapter's patch of Strunk. Use it while working through the Week-10 module overview. (reading, 8–12 min)

② Is it really mine? Credit, common knowledge, and patchwriting

Chapter 10, Section “Name the trap: patchwriting” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Credit, patchwriting, and the cover-the-source test” · Remember: a citation credits the idea, so a borrowed sentence shape still needs new words and a new structure.

• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It — Writing Tutorial Services — what counts as plagiarism, a pair of unacceptable and acceptable paraphrases of one passage, and a short section on what common knowledge is. Try sorting a few facts from your own topic before you read its answer. (reading, 6–9 min)
• How to Cite Sources: A Comment on Common Knowledge — Kevin deLaplante — a short talk on whether an idea or a phrase that may count as common knowledge still needs a citation. Hold it to the chapter's rule: when unsure, cite. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
• Paraphrasing vs. Patchwriting — Stacey Hoffer — a short screencast contrasting an honest paraphrase with patchwriting. Run the cover-the-source test on its example as you watch. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
• Plagiarism: The Debate over Patchwriting — Kevin deLaplante — a brief look at the argument over whether patchwriting is cheating or a normal stage in learning to write. This course treats it as plagiarism to fix, and the cover-the-source test is the fix. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)

③ How do sources talk to each other, and can I trust the machine's quotations?

Chapter 10, Section “Take a first look at synthesis” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Synthesis and the machine's quotations” · Remember: connect two sources in one sentence, and never use a quotation until you have found its words in the real text.

• Synthesising: How to Combine Your Sources in Academic Writing — Academic Bites — how to organize your sources and combine them into one coherent point instead of summarizing each one in turn. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
• Synthesis — Writing Centers — a short page that defines synthesis as building new meaning from several sources and lists the questions to ask about each one before you combine them. (reading, 2–4 min)
• Verifying and Citing Generative AI — Libraries Research Guide — why chatbots invent sources and quotations, and a four-step routine for tracing a claim back to its original source. Stop before its section on citing AI output in a style guide; next week takes MLA documentation up. (reading, 6–9 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words — Online Writing Lab (OWL) — a short reference page defining paraphrase and listing steps for writing one; use it to check your method when you paraphrase a source this week. (reading, 3–5 min)

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