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Hi there! Today we will learn about different ways to pay for college and how to research them honestly.
College can be expensive, but you have many ways to pay for it. You can use grants, scholarships, work-study jobs, or student loans.
Grants and scholarships are free money that you do not have to pay back. Loans must be paid back later with extra interest.
When researching college costs, you must write about your sources honestly. Paraphrasing means putting an author's ideas into your own words, while plagiarism is copying their exact words without giving them credit.
A student reads this source sentence: 'Scholarships are financial aid awards that students do not have to pay back.' Let us look at two different student responses and determine which one is a safe paraphrase and which one is plagiarism.
- Analyze Student A's response: 'Scholarships are financial aid awards that you do not have to pay back.' This uses almost the exact same words and sentence structure without giving credit. This is plagiarism.
- Analyze Student B's response: 'According to the financial aid website, scholarships are great because they are free gifts of money for school that never need to be repaid.'
- Compare the two responses. Student B changed the sentence structure, used different words like 'free gifts' and 'never need to be repaid,' and named the source. This is a correct paraphrase.
