Asked by j

Read the following quote:

The average American adult is saddled with two or three colds per year, according to the CDC (kids can get up to ten), and between five and ten percent of us get the flu – with tens of thousands of people ending up in the hospital. – Good Housekeeping

You are writing a blog on your favorite home remedies for fighting a cold. Should this quote be paraphrased or directly quoted, and why?


It should be paraphrased because statistics are not appropriate for a personal blog.


It should be directly quoted because the original language is memorable.


It should be directly quoted because government statistics are more persuasive than personal stories.


It should be paraphrased because the information can easily be given in your own words.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
It should be paraphrased because the information can easily be given in your own words.

Reason: the passage mainly conveys factual statistics rather than distinctive or memorable phrasing, so you can restate the numbers in your own voice while still attributing the source (e.g., CDC/Good Housekeeping) to avoid plagiarism and preserve credibility.