Question

Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”

The other thing that I saw which is, I think, one of the single most important things that we continue to have as native people, and that’s a sense of interdependence. I’ve been very fortunate to be able to travel extensively in this country and abroad, and I can tell you that even though our people are very fragmented today, we still, in the more traditional communities still have a sense of interdependence. I can still motivate people in communities to do something because it helps their neighbor, or helps the person down the road, or helps the community much more than I can motivate people to do something just because it helps themselves.

Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust

Which sentence provides the best introduction to the quotation?

Mankiller states her favorite part of being part of the Cherokee tribe is that the people treat each other with respect and kindness.
While many Cherokee communities are fragmented, Mankiller still believes that her people’s strength lies in their sense of interdependence.
Cherokee people are motivated by the desire to help others, Mankiller states, which makes them productive members of the community.
Mankiller explains that she’s been so successful in her community-building efforts because people will do something because it helps their neighbor.


Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”

I think first it’s important, before I start talking about what we’re doing today in the 1990s and what we did throughout the eighties or even the seventies in rebuilding our tribe; I think it’s really, really important to put our current work and our current issues in a historical context.

Read Sahil’s paraphrase of the excerpt.

Wilma Mankiller says that it is important to understand the historical reasons for needing to rebuild the Cherokee tribe, and then she will start talking about what they’re doing today (in the 1990s), and what they did throughout the eighties or even the seventies.

Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust

Which paraphrasing mistake has Sahil made?

He did not properly cite the source.
He did not vary the sentence structure from that used in the source.
He used words too similar to the words the speaker used.
He misrepresented the speaker’s ideas.

Answer 1

1) While many Cherokee communities are fragmented, Mankiller still believes that her people’s strength lies in their sense of interdependence.

2) He used words too similar to the words the speaker used. (Sahil’s paraphrase sticks closely to the original wording and phrasing rather than putting the idea into substantially new language.)