The ART
of
Paraphrasing
3 Ways to Incorporate Sources
• Summarize
• Paraphrase
• Quote
What is a Paraphrase ?
A sentence-by
sentence restatement
of the MEANING of a
passage.
You PARAPHRASE all the time
When you read this:
The relationship between an object's mass m,
its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F
= ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as
indicated by their symbols being displayed in
slant bold font); in this law the direction of the
force vector is the same as the direction of the
acceleration vector
You “think” this:
If I push on something, it
will move in the direction
I push it. If I push twice
as hard, it will move twice
as fast.
How to Paraphrase
1. Read the passage carefully
2. Determine the MEANING of
the passage
3. Re-write it in your own
words!
How to Paraphrase
DO:
•maintain key terms
•use the thesaurus to look up
synonyms
•maintain original order
•MAKE SENSE!
How NOT to Paraphrase
DO NOT:
•translate word for word
•use the same sentence
structure
•leave anything out
THIS IS NOT AS EASY AS
I MAKE IT SOUND!!!
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s hope
With what I most enjoy contented least . . .
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29
When the accumulation of wealth is no
longer of high social importance, there
will be great changes in the code of
morals. We shall be able to rid
ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral
principles which have hag-ridden us for
two hundred years, by which we have
exalted some of the most distasteful of
human qualities into the position of
highest virtue.
John Maynard Keynes
Title IX Law
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