UNCuyo
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Departamento de Inglés
Idioma V
Prof. Del Giusti and Prof. Poveda
NAME:
ENGLISH V TP CLASSES
GROUP ASSIGNMENT ON PLAGIARIZING, QUOTING, PARAPHRASING AND
SUMMARIZING
1. Exercise on summarizing
Following the guidelines for writing a summary, summarize the following paragraphs (30 m)
1. The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online
collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than as the final word,
says a Purdue University communications expert. "Students are addicted to Wikipedia, and
teachers fight it with stern grading policies and restrictions on its use," says Sorin A. Matei,
an assistant professor in the Department of Communication. "But Wikipedia is here to stay
and, despite penalties, people are likely to continue using it."
2. A Glimpse of Chinese History In September 1931 the Japanese invaded Manchuria when
China's government was in confusion. They set up a state with Puyi, the last Chinese
emperor, as a puppet head. Chiang, the Chinese head, was afraid of Communism and went
ahead with his extermination drive to kill Communists. His slogan was "Pacification first,
resistance later." The Communists convinced Chiang's generals to capture him and an antiJapanese alliance was formed. But it did little to stop the advance of the Japanese who
launched an all-out invasion in 1937. By 1939 they had captured and controlled most of
eastern China, forcing the anti-Japanese forces to retreat west. To this day, many Chinese are
distrustful of the Japanese.
3. Exercise on Paraphrasing
Read the following passage and paraphrase it by putting it into your own words. (14m)
In American society, Introverts are outnumbered about three to one. As a result, they must develop
extra coping skills early in life because there will be an inordinate amount of pressure on them to
“shape up,” to act like the rest of the world. The Introvert is pressured daily, almost from the
moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.
Classroom teachers unwittingly pressure Introverted students by announcing that “One-third of your
grade will be based on classroom participation.” From Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen, Type
Talk: The 16 Personality Types that Determine How We Live, Love and Work. New York: Dell
Publishing, 1989.
3. Exercise on Quoting
Read the following correct quotations, draw conclusions and then underline the correct
statement. (6 m/ 2m each)
a. Dr. Libby, a leading thinker at Intel, pointed out last year in Portland, “The next computer chip
will double in speed” (34).
b. “And [the CLEP test] will surely be abandoned in composition courses nationwide by the end of
the year . . . . The CLEP is no longer an accurate measurement in composition,” claimed the Writing
Program Administrator (Punneo 23).
c. I discovered much research along these lines, in fact: “20,000 monitors that could have been used
for K-6 classrooms [in our city] were destroyed last year,” according to Superintendent Bigalow
(453).
d. “I like spam,” said the little girl from Brownfield, “and it reminds me of something much greater.
It reminds me of products that receive bad press for one reason or another and then people in
society think it’s gross” (Green 199).
e. Hubert Dreyfus in Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era
of the Computer points out in the Preface that “The commonsense-knowledge problem, which has
blocked the progress of conventional symbolic representation . . . , may, however, be looming on
the neural-network horizon, although researchers may not yet recognize it” (xiii).
1. When you quote something:
1. You use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of a whole sentence, but
you do not use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of part of a
sentence.
2. Yo use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of a whole sentence and
with the first word of a direct quotation of a part of a sentence.
2. If you interrupt the quotation with your own writing:
1. You capitalize the quotation when you pick it up again. For instance: “Blah, blah, blah,”
said Mr. Spam, “Blah, blah, blah” (34).
2. You do not capitalize the quotation when you pick it up again. For instance: “Blah, blah,
blah,” said Mr. Spam, “blah, blah, blah” (34).
3. What do you do if you quote something from a passage that happens to include a quotation?
1. You use single quotation marks for the quoted quotation.
2. You write is as part of your quotation and you acknowledge it as a footnote.