Posted: July 4th, 2015

Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation Exercise.

Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation Exercise.

Upload your completed exercise to Turnitin.com and review the Originality Report. You should revise this exercise until all material that should be quoted is, and any matching material that is not quoted is common phrasing and proper nouns. For example, all your classmates will probably have “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” appearing somewhere in their exercises. It will match the language in your own, but that is not plagiarism.  Not crediting someone else’s words or ideas is what constitutes plagiarism.
The final draft will be free of uncredited outside material in order to receive credit.
View and listen to the TEDTalk by Dr. Amy Cuddy titled, “ Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are”
Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
The link is also available under Content.

1.    After watching the presentation, summarize Dr. Cuddy’s main idea in your own words and sentence structures. Be sure to introduce your summary with a signal phrase that credits Dr. Cuddy for her idea.

2.    Paraphrase Dr. Cuddy’s speech from 2:15 to 2:35—put the meaning of her speech in your own words and sentence structures. Use a signal phrase to credit Dr. Cuddy’s idea.

3.    Quote Dr. Cuddy’s speech from 19.30 to 19:33. Format the quotation by introducing it with a signal phrase and surrounding it with quotation marks.

4.    Write an MLA-Style Works Cited entry for Dr. Cuddy’s speech. There is a handout explaining how to format a TEDTalk Works Cited entry under CONTENT that you can use as a resource.