BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what?
A
plagiarizing
B
writing
C
cheating
D
paraphrasing
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Paraphrasing means putting someone else’s ideas into your own words. Paraphrasing a source involves changing the wording while preserving the original meaning. Paraphrasing is an alternative to quoting (copying someone’s exact words and putting them in quotation marks).

Detailed explanation-2: -Writing someone else’s text in your own words is otherwise known as paraphrasing and is an essential skill as it prevents you from plagiarising the original author’s work. Simply put, paraphrasing means that when sharing someone else’s ideas and information, you do so using your own words.

Detailed explanation-3: -As you recall, Thinking Collaborative teaches three levels of paraphrasing – acknowledging, organizing, and abstracting.

Detailed explanation-4: -citation: A paraphrase of a passage from a book, or from another person, for the purposes of a scholarly paper.

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