Sora is writing an informative essay on the history of television. Sora finds a source that discusses why the invention of the television was so important to the people living during that time. Sora directly states the author’s ideas in his essay and provides an in-text citation at the end of the statement.

Paraphrasing means restating an author’s ideas in your own words while keeping the original meaning. Since Sora directly states the source’s ideas and includes an in-text citation, he is paraphrasing. Quoting would use the author’s exact words, usually in quotation marks.

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