Quoting Others
Summary:
These resources provide lesson plans and handouts for teachers interested in teaching students how to avoid plagiarism. The resources ask students to practice summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting. The resources with titles that include "Handout" provide handouts that are free to print for your students by using the print option in your web browser. The "Handout" resources correspond with the resource listed above it.
Contributors:Cristyn Elder, Ehren Pflugfelder, Elizabeth Angeli
Last Edited: 2010-11-18 02:31:46
Time Estimate
40 minutes
Objective
To give students experience quoting others in context.
Materials
“Quoting Others” handout
Computer Lab Option Materials
Word processing software
Procedure
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Students will be given a short lesson in quoting others. Please see the Quoting Others handout for more information and feel free to elaborate on why the practice is both useful and necessary. If possible, stress that explaining a quotation is useful and frequently expected. (10 minutes)
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Using one of the prompts on the handout, have students interview each other on a specific topic. Make sure to advise students to take notes on their interview. (5-10 minutes)
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Then have students compose a short write-up of their interviews, taking care to include at least three quotations from their interview partner. Include a word limit (e.g., 200 words) on this activity so students do not feel compelled to write too much. (10 minutes)
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Ask students to share their interviews by reading the interview that is about them, listening for accurate quotations and “acceptable” introductions. (10 minutes)
Computer Lab Option
Instead of writing the interview by hand, students can use a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word. When students read their own interviews, they can include comments on the documents if the quotation was accurate and if they were accurately represented and explained.
