Practice video
In this week’s practice lesson, we will look at an example of how to paraphrase and cite properly. You will read a passage of text, stop the video and try to paraphrase it yourself, and then restart the video and compare your text with the instructors. We have the extract below which is a quotation about negotiation. Let’s suppose we want to add it to our writing. What some students might do is add it to their essays without any reference to the original author.
As you can see in this example, the writer transferred the text and just added an extra sentence at the end. This text reads well but it is “stolen”, in other words, plagiarized as there is no paraphrasing and no citation. Let’s look at some ways to turn it into an acceptable format that will help avoid plagiarism. The best way to do it, is by an indirect quotation, in other words, paraphrasing with an added in-text citation.
Indirect Quotation
Negotiation involves productive communication in order to come to an agreement with interested parties, or achieve a desired goal. (Emamzadeh, n.d., The psychology of Negotiation Explained. Psychology today.
Direct Quotation
“To negotiate is to choose the path of communication (not violence or war) to reach an agreement and get what you want.” Arash Emamzadeh https://www.psychologytoday.com