Illustrative source: "In this sample, students who slept eight hours scored higher on the vocabulary test." Which quotation makes the source say more than it did?

Illustrative source: Reyes writes, "The town collected plastic waste twice a week during 2024." Which student sentence quotes and attributes accurately?

Illustrative source: "Our results suggest that noisy classrooms may slow silent reading." Which sentence reports what the source actually did?

Illustrative source: "During the dry season, the river carried very little plastic waste." A student quotes only: the river "carried very little plastic waste." What has the trimmed quotation lost?

Illustrative source: "Among Grade 10 students, daily screen time averaged four hours." Which quotation reports the finding fairly?

Illustrative source: "Only two of the fifteen canteens sold fresh fruit every day." Which student version is a direct quotation?

Illustrative source: Lim writes, "Flood drills raised student confidence in the two schools we visited." Which sentence keeps the source's words inside the quotation marks and the student's words outside?

Illustrative source: "Longer commutes appear to be linked to lower test scores in this group." Which word carries the writer's caution, so cutting it would strengthen the claim?

Illustrative source: "The survey does not show that part-time work lowers grades." A student writes: the survey shows "that part-time work lowers grades." What is wrong?

Illustrative source: "Many households in the coastal town separate their waste." Which quotation reproduces the source exactly?

Illustrative field note: "We watched the tide bring bottles onto the beach each morning." Which reporting verb matches what the writers did?

Illustrative report: A market vendor told the research team, "The flood water reached my knees by noon." Who should a student attribute those words to?

Illustrative source: "If the canteen keeps its current prices, most students will keep buying lunch there." Which quotation drops the condition the prediction depends on?

Illustrative source: "Reading scores rose in the first term. They fell back to their earlier level by March." A student quotes only the first sentence. Why is that unfair?

A quotation can misrepresent a source even when every word inside the quotation marks appears in the source.

Illustrative source: "Our team measured water temperature at three sites every Friday." Which sentence attributes the source accurately?

Illustrative source: "Nine in ten homes in the two barangays we surveyed stored drinking water in covered containers." Which shortened quotation keeps the limit on who was counted?

A student copies a source sentence word for word, puts quotation marks around it, and names no writer. Which statement about that sentence is true?

Illustrative source: "Among the forty learners who finished the sleep diary, average bedtime was 11 p.m." A student writes: learners' average bedtime was 11 p.m. What did the trimming remove?

Illustrative review: "Few of the studies we read measured screen time after 9 p.m." Which sentence reports this without overstating it?