Suppose You Wish to Summarize Information from a Published Journal

Multiple Choice

Suppose you wish to summarize information from a published journal article. You do so by essentially keeping the same sentence structure and terminology of the original article, but you change a few words here and there and omit some phrases. According to your textbook, this is

A) acceptable for student papers but not for professional scientists.
B) considered plagiarism.
C) acceptable paraphrasing as long as you use a parenthetical citation like this: (Johnson, 2013) .
D) considered a secondary citation.