Exercise 3: Legitimate Paraphrase vs. Patchwriting, Worked Example — Possible Solution
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Original sentence, from Chapter 1 of this course:

"Journalist Brian Deer's own real investigation found that Wakefield
had been paid approximately $750,000 by a lawyer preparing a lawsuit
against MMR vaccine manufacturers - a conflict of interest never
disclosed to The Lancet or the study's own readers."

PATCHWRITTEN VERSION (not acceptable): "Reporter Brian Deer's real
inquiry discovered that Wakefield received close to $750,000 from an
attorney preparing a case against MMR vaccine makers - a conflict of
interest that was never revealed to The Lancet or its readers." No
citation given.

This keeps the exact same sentence structure, the same sequence of
facts in the same order, and swaps only a handful of individual words
for close synonyms ("journalist" to "reporter," "investigation" to
"inquiry," "lawyer" to "attorney," "manufacturers" to "makers"). It
reads as new writing on the surface, but the actual research finding,
the argument structure, and even the specific dollar figure all came
directly from the source with no attribution - matching Howard's own
definition of patchwriting exactly.

LEGITIMATE PARAPHRASE (acceptable): "Wakefield's undisclosed financial
relationship with an attorney building a case against vaccine
manufacturers - a real conflict of interest - was uncovered through
independent investigative journalism (Deer, as cited in [this
course], Chapter 1)." This restates the core idea in a genuinely
different sentence structure, emphasizes a different aspect (the
undisclosed relationship itself, rather than the dollar figure) as
relevant to a new argument, and explicitly credits the source.

The difference: the patchwritten version borrows the original's own
structure and reasoning wholesale with only cosmetic word changes and
no citation; the legitimate paraphrase restructures the idea to serve
a new purpose and clearly credits where the underlying finding came
from.

ANSWER: (worked example above) The patchwritten version keeps the
source's own sentence structure and sequence of facts with only
synonym-level word swaps and no citation - still plagiarism per
Howard's definition. The legitimate paraphrase restructures the idea
into new sentence structure serving the writer's own argument, and
explicitly cites the source.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This provides a real worked pair - patchwritten and legitimate -
built directly from the course's own earlier material, explicitly
naming what makes the two different, matching what the exercise asked
for.