Read the excerpt from Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetarly Copyright (c) 2018 by Margot Lee Shetterly Used
by permission of HarperCollins Publishers
Some women did indeed spend their days in rote
service to the day's task, plotting data with blithe
indifference, routing torrents of numbers as
nonchalantly as the calculating machines they
cradled But the average level of interest in the work
among female employees was no lower than for their
male counterparts, the "inveterate wind tunnel
jockeys" and the mediocre "can't-hack-it engineers
who managed to carve out a comfortable place for
themselves in the bureaucracy despite modest talents
or ambition
Read Anita's paraphrase of the excerpt.
Some women did perform their tasks in a mechanical,
indifferent manner, but they were no more likely than
Which paraphrasing mistake does Anita make?
O She does not restate the ideas in her own words.
O She includes details that are not found in the
excerpt
O She misrepresents the information.
O She does not include enough details from the
excerpt.