Media and Information Literacy Practice Test

The main concept tested here is how to handle someone else's ideas in your own writing. Rephrasing someone’s ideas in your own words is called paraphrasing. Paraphrasing shows you understand the original meaning and lets you integrate the idea with your voice, while avoiding copying the exact wording. It still requires citing the source to credit the original author. This differs from a quotation, which uses the exact words from the source and usually includes quotation marks. The other terms refer to different ideas: value of information is about usefulness, and reliability of information concerns whether the information is trustworthy. Paraphrasing is the best match for describing rewording someone else’s ideas.