University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Using Quotes Effectively
This 2-page resource provides guidelines for how to use quotations effectively in essays. Includes a list of ten common mistakes that writers make when using quotations in essays and how they can be avoided.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World Around Us: Paraphrasing
This lesson focuses on the importance of paraphasing and how to paraphrase to avoid plagiarism. It provides links to an example of an MLA research paper, an article of effective paraphrasing, and a "Purdue Owl: Paraphrase" entry showing...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Embedding Direct Quotations and Incorporating Indirect Quotations
This lesson focuses on the correct methods for using both direct and indirect quotations. We will explore how properly written direct quotations can fall into one of three categories: acceptable, better, or best, depending on how...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations. It includes a variety of practice exercises.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: What Are Quoting and Paraphrasing?
This reference provides clear explanations of quoting and paraphrasing. Examples of a paraphrase of a direct quotation is also provided.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Summary: Paraphrasing
This site provides a list of reminders about paraphrases. Then student will self-assess their own writings to ensure that they have properly used their paraphrases.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: 5th Grade Quote Accurately
An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Paraphrasing
Improve understanding of expository materials by getting the main ideas through paraphrasing. The paraphrasing strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are three steps for teaching...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Basic Level Paraphrase and Summary Writing
Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Provides guidance on the ways to quote, paraphrase, and summarize information. Gives various reasons for paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting various sources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
Contains plans for three lessons that deal with plagiarism, copyright law, and how to paraphrase correctly. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Types of Quotes
Notes and examples explaining different types of quotes including: direct, indirect, short, long, and numbers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Summary and Paraphrase: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students are provided with notes that distinguish "summarizing" from "paraphrasing" content. Examples of effective summaries and paraphrases of text are provided. Then students have the opportunity to engage...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Paraphrase and Summary
This lesson focuses on how to integrate source material using paraphrase and summary and the differences between the two. It also provides a practice exercise.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Quotation
This lesson focuses on integrating source material using direct quotations including examples and a chart of when to use them.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Applying Paraphrase, Summary, and Quotation
This instructional activity focuses on when to use paraphrase, summary, and quotation to integrate source material into your paper.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying Acceptable Paraphrases
This learning module defines paraphrasing and discusses how to paraphase, and then they identify acceptable paraphrases of source material.
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Writing About Literature: Effective Quotation
Information about rules and useful strategies for effective use of quotations.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing Effective Paraphrases
In this learning module, students practice paraphrasing brief, non-fiction passages.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Write It in Your Own Words
An explanation of paraphrasing, six steps to effective paraphrasing, and examples of effective paraphrasing.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Quoting and Paraphrasing
This provides guidelines for creating a paraphrase, sample paraphrases, introducing quotations, punctuating, formatting quotations, and what must be documented.