Advanced Placement (AP) Seminar 2026 Practice Test

This distinction is about how you handle borrowed ideas: restating them in your own words versus reproducing the exact wording. The term that describes this distinction is paraphrasing vs quoting. Paraphrasing means you rewrite the idea in your own language and sentence structure while keeping the original meaning, and you still cite the source. Quoting means you reproduce the exact words from the source and place them in quotation marks with a citation. This matters for clarity and academic integrity, showing you understand and can convey the idea in your voice, or preserving the author’s precise language for emphasis or accuracy. The other options don’t fit because revision is about editing, and anecdotal or statistical evidence concerns the type of evidence, not how you present borrowed language.