A type of plagiarism that properly paraphrased information, overlooking proper attribution to the

primary source.
Idea Plagiarism
Choose one best example of a summary:

Losingweightshouldbeaboutlongtermsuccess.
Identify the strong thesis statement among the following.

While both Northerners and Southerners believed they fought against tyranny and oppression

Which is the best paraphrased passage for the following statement:

Howard Dee says that abortion remains a threat to the population
Different ideas can be inserted into the thesis statement.
False

Identify the thesis statement in the following paragraph.

Experiments show that friendly people like bright colors while quiet people like blue and other cool
colors. Athletic people like red and self-centered ones like yellow. A man says he "sees red" when he
is angry; a girl is often "green with envy" when she has a new dress only "once in a blue moon." Blue
has been associated in our minds with a sort of supersteel, so fine objects are given a bluish tint in
order to sell well. Labels and packages colored green do not appeal to farmers who see so much
green on the farms. Hospital rooms, on the other hand, are painted green and bright colors because
colorful walls make the surroundings more pleasant. In fact, housewives bring plants and flowers
into the house in order to make the rooms look like gardens. Color affects people in many ways.

- Adapted, Villamin 69 (cited in the book Winning Strategies for Study, Thinking and Writing Skills)

Color affects people in many ways.

Identify the weak thesis statement from the following:
College students shouldnt have to take a required core curriculum, and many core courses
are graded too stiffly.

Choose the appropriate thesis statement for the following paragraph.

____________________________. Visually organized spaces are preferred by highly organized

people; on the other hand, disarrayed corners are the habitats of troubled, chaotic persons.
Harmony in space is the handiwork of people who are at peace, while clean and quiet rooms are the
creations of introspective and stable individuals. Does the space create the person, or does the
person create the space? Either way, our surroundings is our self-portrait.

- Asuncion B2, (cited in the book Winning Strategies for Study, Thinking and Writing Skills)
The rhythm and harmony that permeate our place bespeak of who we are and what
we want to be.

Spot the thesis statement in the following passage:

In the 1940s, George Orwell warned Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the
present controls the past (Orwell 30). In the 1990s a band called Rage Against the Machine, the
name itself referring to a peoples movement to fight against control (corporation, government or
otherwise) used this mantra in their song Testify, a warning to not silently endure oppression. This
warning is not only relevant to the 20th century, but has been applicable since human beings started
forming structures of power to control and oppress one another. This can vividly be seen during the
times of slavery in the United States w

The control and limitations over reading and writing during slavery sought to make slaves like
Douglass ignorant, powerless, and therefore more easily controlled, and this control over literacy
and education is still happening in the world today.

Spot the thesis statement in the following passage:

"Dont meddle with old unloaded firearms, they are the most deadly and unerring things ever
created. You dont have to take any pains with them at all; you dont have to have a rest, you dont
have to have any sights on the gun, you dont have to take aim even. No, you just pick out a relative
and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who cant hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a
Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother
every time at a hundred."

---Mark Twain, Advice to Youth

Dont meddle with old unloaded firearms, they are the most deadly and unerring things ever created.