Lets Paraphrase it !

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Today I would like to share you about paraphrasing material and how to paraphrase it well. Let’s start with definition of paraphrase.  Paraphrasing is a restatement of a text, passage, or paragraph by using your own word as stated by Merriam Webster. In the other hand, paraphrase is rewrite of an article that belongs to an expert in our word

As students you often get an assignment of paraphrasing from your lecturer. Before you write a paraphrase you should understand about the material that you want to paraphrase. When you write a paraphrase, you rewrite other idea in your own word, it means, you write the meaning of an author’s idea base on your own word. To make it better you should put some key term from the author but do not use author’s key term too much.

To make your paraphrase better, here some technique that will help to paraphrase and avoid plagiarism. The first one is change a word one part of speech to another. In this case you can use an expert definition such as, according to, based on James (2016) etc. for example:

Origin            : medical professor Johns swansongs says that global change are influencing the spread of disease.

Paraphrase    : James Swansongs (2004) stated that a professor of medicine change through a globe is causing dieses to spread.

The second one is use a synonym when you write a paraphrase. It will help you to change the author’s idea into your own word. Then, don’t forget to change numbers and percentage to different form, and always use different definition structure when you write your paraphrasing. The next technique to make your paraphrasing better is don’t forget to change the sentences structure and use different connecting word.

okay guys hope you enjoy the information, wish you all the best :)