Academic Skills Development Additional Practice

Week 4: Paraphrasing

Starter question:
What strategies for paraphrasing source material are you already aware of?

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Week 4: Paraphrasing

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 Academic Skills Development Additional Practice
Week 4: Paraphrasing

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Week 4: Paraphrasing

Practice

1. Source: All five General Motor plants will halt production next year. “We are taking this
action now while the company and the economy are strong to keep ahead of changing
market conditions,”
- Mary T. Barra, General Motor’s chief executive, 2018

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2. Source: “Misinformation has been around for a long time, but over the last decade or so
the rise of social media has really, really changed how information is shared. We believe
that understanding the concept of misinformation is vital to identifying misinformation as
we encounter it in the wild, and that could ultimately help curb its impact.”
- Jane Solomon, a linguist at Dictionary, 2018.

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Remember to include citations

to the source material!

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3. Source:

The Poverty Line

The World Bank reports that a person is considered poor if his or her income level falls
below some minimum level to meet basic needs. The minimum level is called the poverty
line. Because basic needs vary across time periods and societies, poverty lines vary in time
and place. Each country uses a line that is appropriate to its level of development, what is
considered normal in that society, and what that countries values are. Information on typical
living standards and income is obtained through sample surveys of households, conducted
fairly regularly in most countries.

Source: Kotler, P. and Lee, N. R. (2009). Up and out of poverty – The social marketing solution. New Jersey:
Pearson Education

3. Paraphrase:

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