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    This document discusses paraphrasing, which is expressing another person's ideas in your own words. It provides steps for paraphrasing, including understanding the original text, taking notes on key points, and rewriting the ideas in your own structure and words while maintaining the same meaning. Paraphrasing is important as it allows you to incorporate other sources into your own work without plagiarizing, and helps you better understand the ideas through rewriting them in your own style.

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    This document discusses paraphrasing, which is expressing another person's ideas in your own words. It provides steps for paraphrasing, including understanding the original text, taking notes on key points, and rewriting the ideas in your own structure and words while maintaining the same meaning. Paraphrasing is important as it allows you to incorporate other sources into your own work without plagiarizing, and helps you better understand the ideas through rewriting them in your own style.

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    This document discusses paraphrasing, which is expressing another person's ideas in your own words. It provides steps for paraphrasing, including understanding the original text, taking notes on key points, and rewriting the ideas in your own structure and words while maintaining the same meaning. Paraphrasing is important as it allows you to incorporate other sources into your own work without plagiarizing, and helps you better understand the ideas through rewriting them in your own style.

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    51 views1 page

    Paraphrase

    Uploaded by

    Wan Daniel
    This document discusses paraphrasing, which is expressing another person's ideas in your own words. It provides steps for paraphrasing, including understanding the original text, taking notes on key points, and rewriting the ideas in your own structure and words while maintaining the same meaning. Paraphrasing is important as it allows you to incorporate other sources into your own work without plagiarizing, and helps you better understand the ideas through rewriting them in your own style.

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    Expressing a sentence in different words

    What is paraphrasing Read the sentence or paragraph clearly to understand it


    To put someone else's ideas in your own words using
    your own interpretation Write down important points

    Change happy to glad


    Use synonyms Examples
    When putting ideas in your own words you tend to Change running to sprinting
    understand it better
    PARAPHRASING Write down paragraph or sentence in your own words Change "The strawberries were big and juicy because of
    It is better then quoting a lot of information Why is paraphrasing important the warm and wet July" to "It was a nice, warm and wet
    July, so we got big juicy strawberries"
    When you don't quote as much you have more room for How to paraphrase Change the structure Examples
    your own ideas Change "Neil Armstrong returned to Earth eight days
    after launch" to "Eight days after launch. Neil Armstrong
    returned to Earth".

    To borrow information from other sources


    Check your paragraph with the original paragraph
    What is paraphrasing for
    To take an idea and use it in your work without Compare both and make sure that the meaning of
    plagiarizing it. paragraphs are the same

    Use quotation marks for phrases you take directly from


    sources

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