Notes

paraphrasing
Expressing an idea from a source in one's own words.
A collage is a picture or written work pieced together from many sources.
plagiarism
Presenting someone else's words or ideas as one's own.
The taste of McDonald's French fries has long been praised by customers, competitors, and even food critics. James Beard loved McDonald's fries. Their distinctive taste does not stem from the type of potatoes that McDonald's buys, the technology that processes them, or the equipment that fries them. The taste of a fast food fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. 1
—Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
Paraphrase 1: According to Schlosser, many people love how McDonald's fries taste. Rather than any kind of special machine or potato variety, he says their flavor comes from the oil they use to fry them
(120).
Paraphrase 2: The way McDonald's French fries taste has, for a long time, been favored by the people who buy them and other companies who sell fries. Even James Beard liked them. The original taste of the fries doesn't come from the kind of potatoes McDonald's gets, nor the way they fry them. It comes from the oil they're cooked in (120).
Paraphrase 3: McDonald's French fries have long been favored
by customers and food critics. Their flavor doesn't originate from the type of potatoes or equipment McDonald's uses; it is determined by the cooking oil (120).
Which of the passages above is the best paraphrase of the excerpt, summarizing the overall idea instead of "translating" each sentence?
Paraphrase 1synthesis
When different ideas are combined into a new idea that explains all of them.