1. CHUNKING TECHNIQUE FOR PARAPHRASING Ground Beef and the Hamburger: How Safe Is It?

2. PROCESS Break the passage into logical chunks Write each chunk in your own words --- change vocabulary, word order, and sentence structure (continued)

3. Process - continued Arrange your new chunks to make a logical paraphrase. You do not have to present the ideas in the same order as the original. DO NOT LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL WHEN YOU WRITE THE PARAPHRASE. ONLY LOOK AT YOUR NEW CHUNKS! Include attribution. Tell the read the title and author (if known).

4. DO NOT CHANGE MEANING Do NOT add your opinions. Do NOT add any information that is not in the original text.

5. Original – paragraph #2 The meat from one tainted cow ends up so widespread because the ground beef shaped into patties for the fry pan is likely to be meat combined from several animals, a recipe that increases the odds that the meat is contaminated. Chunks: the meat from one tainted cow ends up so widespread because the ground beef shaped into patties for the fry pan is likely to be meat combined from several animals, a recipe that increases the odds that the meat is contaminated

6. Chunks in own words the meat from one tainted cow ends up so widespread because the ground beef shaped into patties for the fry pan is likely to be meat combined from several animals, a recipe that increases the odds that the meat is contaminated the ground beef from one cow with mad cow disease doesnt just stay in one hamburger or one location in one hamburger, you find meat from many different cows therefore, the chances are high that ground beef will carry disease

7. PARAPHRASE:

8. In Ground Beef and the Hamburger: How Safe Is it? we learn that the chance that one hamburger will carry mad cow Disease is high because the ground beef from one sick cow doesnt just stay in one hamburger. Instead, you can find meat from many different cows in one burger.

9. NOW YOU TRY ALL THE STEPS FOR PARAGRAPHS 4, 8, and 10