2. Clarification about Compare/Contrast
• Option 1: Option 2:
– Point by point
compare/contrast
– Paragraph 1: C & C Paragraph 1: Discuss topic 1
– Paragraph 2: C & C Paragraph 2: Discuss topic 2
Paragraph 3: C & C 1 and 2
– Paragraph 3: C & C
4. What should you keep in mind?
• CITE—author, title ,date of publication
• “”
• Paraphrase
5. Let us think about plagiarism
• Plagiarism?: taking sentences and putting
them in a different order
• ????: Replacing words with synonyms
• ??????: Copying sentences and adding a few
words to the sentences
6. Think about plagiarism: pretend all are real
• The rate of obesity in the United States has increased a lot in
recent decades.
• 60% of Americans are either overweight or obese.
• People are overweight if they are 5’4” tall and weigh 147
pounds or more.
• There are three kinds of native bears in America.
• Alaska has all three types of bears found in the United States.
• Women in America often (but not always) take the last name
of their husband when they get married.
• 77.4% of women in the United State take the last name of
their husband when they get married.
• In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked
to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt.
McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless.
7. Think about how you might
paraphrase this!
• In April 1992 a young man from a well-
to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and
walked alone into the wilderness north
of Mt. McKinley. His name was
Christopher Johnson McCandless. He
had give $25,000 in savings to charity,
abandoned his car and most of his
Taken from the
possessions, burned all the cash in his
cover of the book wallet, and invented a new life for
Into the Wild by
Jon Krakauer
himself. Four months later, his
decomposed body was found by a
moose hunter…
