Activity Guide for the Graded Exercise on Paraphrasing
Activity guide
Following the steps in writing a paraphrase, restate the paragraph below taken from “The Ethics of Higher Studies” by Etienne Gilson.
“The first virtue you will impose on yourselves by taking such a step will be intellectual honesty. We know perfectly well what moral honesty is, and we would never for the world allow ourselves to sin against it; intellectual honesty is a much less known virtue, and higher studies will precisely teach you what it is. Moral honesty is, at the bottom, a scrupulous respect for for the truth. This statement may appear, at first sight, as an abstract and verbal parallelism, but try seriously to follow it down to its last consequences, and you will realize what it means…”
2. Save your in PDF using the file name
Comm 1&2 DAYS Topic 11 activity Your surname
Example: Comm 1&2 TF Topic 11 activity Salazar
3. Upload the file in your Google Drive folder on October 14, 2022.
Evaluation Criteria
Your paraphrase will be graded based on the rubric given below.
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LANGUAGE |
CONTENT |
YOUR SCORE |
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Grammar |
Tone |
Point of View |
Restatement |
Major ideas |
Minor ideas |
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20 |
The summary is free from grammatical errors. |
The tone in the original article is preserved. |
The point of view of the original article is retained in the precis. |
All the statements in the precis are paraphrases of the original. |
All the major ideas in the article are included in the paraphrase. |
All the supporting details are Included in the paraphrase. |
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15 |
The summary has 1 to 5 grammatical errors. |
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Half or more than half of the total number of major ideas are included in the paraphrase. |
Half or more than half of the total number of supporting details are included in the paraphrase. |
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10 |
The summary has 6 to 10 grammatical errors. |
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Less than half of the total number of supporting details in the original text are mentioned in the paraphrases. |
Less than half of the total number of supporting details in the original text are mentioned in the paraphrases. |
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5 |
The summary has more than 10 grammatical errors. |
The tone in the original article is lost. |
The point of view of the original article is not retained in the precis. |
Portions of the precís are verbatim copy of the original. |
No major ideas are included in the paraphrase. |
No supporting details are included in the paraphrase. |
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Total: /100 |