User talk:Vvain1

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Hello, Vvain1, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Close paraphrasing
Hi - I received a notification that you'd plagiarized content. I saw that there was a list taken verbatim from a source and that's fine, as you attributed the list to the specific study. However what concerned me was that prior to that you closely paraphrased from the source:


 * In the 2001 study "Books About Teen Parents: Messages and Omissions," fifteen pieces of literature were taken to examine messages related to teen sex and pregnancy. In this study, they found eight messages in their analysis that were most commonly associated with teen pregnancy. They use the eight messages found as the following subheadings:


 * In their 2001 study of fifteen pieces of literature (thirteen novels, one short story, and one creative non-fiction), Davis and McGillavray also examine messages related to teen sex and pregnancy. In "Books About Teen Parents: Messages and Omissions," they use the eight messages they found as the following subheadings

The first is your version, below is the original. It doesn't look like this was intentional per se, but you definitely need to be more careful about how you phrase things. A possible way to rephrase this is as follows:


 * In 2001 Joy Davis and Laurie MacGillivray published a study entitled Books About Teen Parents: Messages and Omissions, where they reviewed fiction and non-fiction literature for common messages about teen pregnancy. The two created the following subheadings to describe the most common messages:

This may not give as much information but it does summarize the basic gist of things while changing up the prose enough to where it won't really be close paraphrasing. I also named the authors just for clarity. You can use this, if you like. I know that there's not always a good way to rephrase things, especially with short bursts of text, so you definitely need to be careful and I'd like you to review the plagiarism module just in case. A good way to avoid this is to identify the most important fact(s) and then write based on those: namely that there was a study where its authors looked at literature to find common messages about teen pregnancy. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:23, 26 April 2018 (UTC)