PARAPHRASING

PARAPHRASING

1. What is paraphrasing?

   • Paraphrasing means putting someone else's ideas into your own words. Paraphrasing a source implies changing the wording while preserving the original meaning. Paraphrasing is an alternative to quoting (copying someone's exact words and putting them in quotation marks). In academic writing, it is often better to integrate sources by paraphrasing rather than citing.

2. An important aspect is that the author's work should always be acknowledged.

   • We must always be honest and recognize in our activities or works those authors that we are paraphrasing, following certain measures such as the following: When it comes to a short textual quotation, we must write down the fragment of the original text that is being quoted word by word. This must be enclosed in quotation marks and include in parentheses (outside the quotation marks) the author's last name, the year of publication of the text and the page number from which the citation was obtained.

3. Paraphrase step by step

   • 1. Decide what the key information is, for the purposes of your discussion. 2. Change the order of ideas and words. This can help you emphasize your interpretation of the original text. 3. Change the word form/grammatical form if necessary. 4. Use synonyms if appropriate, but don't change any specific terminology. The best place to find suitable synonyms will be elsewhere in the same article. 5. If some words remain the same in the same order (three or more consecutive words), you must use quotation marks around these words. 6. Repeat the author's name or a pronoun throughout the paraphrase, so it is clear that we are still reading a paraphrase. 7. Add a detail about the origin of the information, if necessary, to give some context to the statements. 8. Keep the author's name and page number. (You may have been told that you don't need the page number for a paraphrase, but if the idea came from a specific page, it's still helpful to include it. That way you can

4. Based on my experience

   • May I mention that based on my experience, I always try to follow these four tips for paraphrasing: 1. Start your first sentence at a different point from the original source 2. Use synonyms 3. Change the form of words 4. Change the sentence structure

5. When it comes to a paraphrase, you should not write the quoted fragment word by word, but instead, using your own words, write the main ideas of the fragment you want to quote. In this type of citation, you should not put quotation marks or page numbers, but it is also necessary that you indicate the author and year in parentheses.

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