Paraphrasing

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Decide on keywords to use for research.
Choose the best place to look for information e.g. Britannica, the Library, Google.
Skim read results pages and find sources with information relevant to your research.
Paraphrase the relevant information from each source into your notes doc and add a url for each source.
If copying and pasting useful material to quote later, use “colour and quotes” to identify it as copied.
Add paraphrased material into assignment and add it to MyBib so that you can later add it to your Works Cited page.

Read the text that you are paraphrasing carefully until you really understand it. You might need to reread several times
Are there any words e.g.nouns you can’t change?
Try and remember the text without looking at it. Close the tab in your browser or switch to another tab. Don’t switch back to the original until you have finished.
Paraphrase the text aloud with a partner if possible, or imagine doing this. Use your own words, like telling a story. Write your paraphrase down in your notes with a reference or URL so that you can find it again later.
Check your paraphrase with the original text. Is the meaning the same?

Do you do this? Have you ever done this before, or have you done some of these things? Be honest!

Use these techniques to paraphrase more complicated technical texts.

Combine sentences.
Remove details that are not relevant.
Change sentence structure.
Change voice.
Use different forms of a word.
Use synonyms. Note that only replacing a few words for synonyms is not paraphrasing.

Last updated 1 year ago

Was this helpful?

Decide on keywords to use for research.
Choose the best place to look for information e.g. Britannica, the Library, Google.
Skim read results pages and find sources with information relevant to your research.
Paraphrase the relevant information from each source into your notes doc and add a url for each source.
If copying and pasting useful material to quote later, use “colour and quotes” to identify it as copied.
Add paraphrased material into assignment and add it to MyBib so that you can later add it to your Works Cited page.

Read the text that you are paraphrasing carefully until you really understand it. You might need to reread several times
Are there any words e.g.nouns you can’t change?
Try and remember the text without looking at it. Close the tab in your browser or switch to another tab. Don’t switch back to the original until you have finished.
Paraphrase the text aloud with a partner if possible, or imagine doing this. Use your own words, like telling a story. Write your paraphrase down in your notes with a reference or URL so that you can find it again later.
Check your paraphrase with the original text. Is the meaning the same?

Source: , Episode 2, 2013

Do you do this? Have you ever done this before, or have you done some of these things? Be honest!

Use these techniques to paraphrase more complicated technical texts.

Combine sentences.
Remove details that are not relevant.
Change sentence structure.
Change voice.
Use different forms of a word.
Use synonyms. Note that only replacing a few words for synonyms is not paraphrasing.