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When summarizing text, what is a crucial technique to avoid plagiarism?
Paraphrasing involves restating the information in your own words and sentence structure, which, when properly cited, avoids plagiarism while demonstrating comp
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Question: When summarizing text, what is a crucial technique to avoid plagiarism?
Answer options: ✅ Paraphrasing the original author's ideas in your own words and citing the source.
- Copying sentences word-for-word and enclosing them in quotation marks.
- Deleting every third word from the original text.
- Translating the text into a different language.
Correct answer: Paraphrasing the original author's ideas in your own words and citing the source.
Explanation: Paraphrasing involves restating the information in your own words and sentence structure, which, when properly cited, avoids plagiarism while demonstrating comprehension.
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