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EXAMINATION

Dear Student,

Please print and submit to your teacher a hard copy of your paraphrased text as soon as you complete it. 

Print on A 4 paper format, Times New Roman 11, space between the lines: 1. Your name, ID number and the date must be written at the top of the page. Do not forget to sign it. 

Copy and paste the following on Word Document and start paraphrasing. You can use any online tools you like.


   Name: ............................................     ID: ........................      Date: ...............

   Signature: ................................

Paraphrasing
Paraphrased sentences:

1. The lecture on an introduction to linguistics was attended by all the college students.
2. Two teenagers were caught by the police for armed robbery.
3. Fast car culprit believed to have fled US.
4. Four of the building plans submitted were rejected by the town council.
5. Five criminals who were linked to the murder were arrested by the authorities.
6. Critical reading means analyzing ideas and then deciding whether to accept them, reject them, or think about them further.
7. Basically our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
8. An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear focused goals.
9. An ass, placed exactly in the middle between two stacks of hay of equal size and quality, starved to death since it could not make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other.
10. Perhaps the most difficult part of getting started on a research paper is choosing the topic to write about.
11. The process of writing the research paper is going to be very time consuming.
12. The topic was about discrimination in the workplace. It analyzed issues for today’s corporations.
13. A properly written job application letter, or a cover letter, is an effective way to get your potential employers' attention and to convince them to read your CV.
14. To achieve academic success, you must carefully manage your study time on a daily, weekly, and semester basis.
15. A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified activity.
16. Sherlock Holmes noticed that the ventilator and the rope were quite new, and had been put there quite recently, most probably just before the death of Julia.
17. To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!
18. If you give people tools, and if they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
19. Essential career improvement skills are always related to skills and techniques which increase personal effectiveness such as goal setting, stress management, creativity, problem solving, information processing, memory improvement and effective learning.
20. Extensive reading is reading a lot for pleasure at a fairly easy level with emphasis on general understanding so that whatever is read is comprehended without the use of a dictionary.



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