Paraphrase

Paraphrasing is a writing skill in which you rephrase information from an outside source in your own words without changing its meaning. Because you include in your rewriting all, or nearly all, of the content of the original passage, a paraphrase is almost as long. Examples: 1. By changing the vocabulary (verbs/nouns) e.g. She examined the difficulties that.... She investigated the problems that.... 2. By changing the verb form (from active to passive) e.g. Johns (1987) analysed the students' difficulties and.... The students' difficulties were analysed by Johns (1987) and.... 3. By changing the word class (from verb to noun phrase) e.g. The reports were completed in April... The comletion of the reports in April ensured that the students had time to revise before their examination.
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Source: Course pack for the Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping. Set 2