What is Paraphrasing?
Wednesday November 24, 2004
What is a paraphrase? How exactly does one paraphrase? How is it different from a direct quote? Should you quote directly or paraphrase? In what situations is one more appropriate than the other? Whew! That was a long list of questions. But, this small article will answer all of them.
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What is a Paraphrase?
A paraphrase is a passage borrowed from a source and rewritten in your own words. A paraphrase should be true to the original authors idea, but is rewritten in your own words and sentence structure. Since you are using someones else’s ideas and expressing them in your own words, it is very important to give credit to the source of the idea.
A paraphrase should not use any of the original authors words except incidental conjunctions and common prepositions.
how can i give it credit? by citing it?