Paraphrasing is using others' ideas but writing them in your own words.
To correctly paraphrase information:
- First read over the original information.
- Then, without looking at the original source, write the same information in your own words.
- Check back to make sure the context is correct.
- Incorporate the paraphrased information into your paragraph.
- A parenthetical citation should go after each section of paraphrased information from the same page, the same source, and in the same paragraph.
JUST CHANGING ONE OR TWO WORDS, OR CHANGING A FEW WORDS AROUND, IS NOT PARAPHRASING. IN ORDER TO PARAPHRASE CORRECTLY, DO NOT USE THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL LANGUAGE. GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE AND WORD CHOICE MUST BE DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL PASSAGE.
