paraphrasing

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This exercise provides practice in the skill of paraphrasing from a source and applying APA style to both in-text citations and works cited citations. Both of these are important skills for the Expanded Definition assignment.

Read the passages below. You will use them as sources to paraphrase from. You must change the writing in the passage to your own words without changing the meaning. Start by underlining the key words and phrases which should not be changed, then underline the phrases and words which should be changed into your own words.

1) The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America’s break with the past.

From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989) p. 25

2) Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From George Stenton,”Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers,” Consumer Reports (May 1990): p. 348.

3) While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it’s unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world’s tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, “Reaching for the Sky.” Architectural Digest (May 1990): p. 15.

Now write your own paraphrase of each of the quoted passages above. Include an in-parentheses APA formatted in-text citation, and then, below each paraphrased paragraph, format the complete source citation as you would in a Works Cited page.

For reference, click on the link below to check the Perdue Owl APA Sample Paper, which includes a model Works Cited page.

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