Suppose You Wish to Summarize Information from a Published Journal

question 32

Multiple Choice

Suppose you wish to summarize information from a published journal article. You do so by essentially keeping the same sentence structure and terminology of the original article, but you change a few words here and there and omit some phrases. According to your textbook, this is

• A) acceptable for student papers but not for professional scientists.
• B) considered plagiarism.
• C) acceptable paraphrasing as long as you use a parenthetical citation like this: (Johnson, 2013).
• D) considered a secondary citation.

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Definitions:

Break-even Analysis

A financial calculation to determine the point at which a business, product, or project will become profitable, by equating total revenues with total costs.