Question

Noemi is writing an essay on organic foods. She wishes to include properly cited information from a government source that details how organic farmers raise their crops. Which methods could she use to most effectively incorporate this information into one of her body paragraphs? Select three options.

She could summarize the ideas from the source.
She could state her opinion about ideas in the source.
She could paraphrase the ideas from the source.
She could directly quote the ideas from the source.
She could list various ideas as bulleted points.

Answer 1

Select these three:
- She could summarize the ideas from the source.
- She could paraphrase the ideas from the source.
- She could directly quote the ideas from the source.

Brief reasoning: summarizing and paraphrasing let her put the government material into her own words (with citation), and direct quotation is appropriate for exact wording or authoritative phrasing. Stating her opinion is not incorporating source information, and bulleted lists are generally not used inside a body paragraph.