Paraphrasing Activity

Paraphrase: Your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form, or one legitimate way (when documented) to borrow from a source.

Directions: Paraphrase the examples below using the sample shown as a guide. Make sure to include internal citation. This paraphrasing activity is due at the end of the period.

Sample Works Cited Entry:

Peterson, Linda. "Looking Back At Jackie." Biography 2.1 (1998): 48. MAS

Ultra - School Edition. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

Sample Quotation:

“Yet despite all the privilege, Jackie's childhood brought great pain.Her father never achieved the "real" money her mother desired, and when Jackie was seven her parents separated, divorcing four years later. After Janet remarried the very wealthy Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jackie and her younger sister, Lee, shuttled between a Virginia mansion and a summer home in ultrarich Newport, Rhode Island. Jackie was fond of "Hughdie," but he had none of her adored father's charisma” (Peterson).

Sample Summary that Paraphrases the Above Quotation:

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ upbringing was one of advantage as well as stress (Peterson). Her parents divorced when she was eleven years old due to her father’s inability to meet her mother’s material demands (Peterson). When Onassis’ mother remarried, she was constantly shuffled between her mother and father’s home, never achieving a stable home life (Peterson).

1. Sauter, Michael. "Clark Gable: The First King Of Hollywood." Biography 7.5 (2003): 76. MAS

Ultra - School Edition. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

“The starstruck Gable started hanging around the theater as an unpaid errand boy, hoping to somehow gain entry into this exciting new world. He got his shot one night when a minor player fell ill and Gable was given a walk-on role with one line” (Sauter).

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2. Cole, K. C. "Sally Ride." Smithsonian 36.8 (2005): 64. MAS Ultra - School Edition.

Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

“A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission Sally Ride, the nation's first woman astronaut, no longer flies for NASA, but she has embarked on a mission into territory that is just as mysterious and controversial, and is much closer to home: making sure that girls get to share in the adventure that is science” (Cole).

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3. Moore, Lucinda. "A Conversation With Maya Angelou At 75." Smithsonian 34.1

(2003): 96. World History Collection. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

“Her grandmother Annie Henderson was one of the most important, a pious woman who ran a general store in Stamps, Arkansas. Angelou lived most of her childhood with her grandmother, whom she called ‘Momma’” (Moore).

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4. Rolston, Bill. "Frederick Douglass: A Black Abolitionist In Ireland." History Today

53.6 (2003): 45. World History Collection. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

“The visit would prove highly influential in Douglass's intellectual and political development. He gave countless lectures, fifty in Ireland alone, and honed both his oratorical and political skills. It was almost two years before he returned to America” (Rolston).

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5. Include one example from your own sources. List the citation below, write the direction quotation and paraphrase.

Example Citation:

Direction Quotation:

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Paraphrase:

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