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    Paraphrasing restates a passage's ideas in your own words while retaining the original meaning. It requires carefully analyzing the passage to understand the author's ideas and expressing them differently without adding or omitting anything. Paraphrasing improves comprehension and ensures the ideas are truly understood since they must be stated in one's own words. It can be used for note-taking from references for papers or when a detailed understanding of difficult concepts is needed. To paraphrase properly, one must read thoroughly, check word meanings, focus on restating ideas rather than words, avoid directly copying phrases, and compare the paraphrase to the original to ensure accuracy.

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    Paraphrasing restates a passage's ideas in your own words while retaining the original meaning. It requires carefully analyzing the passage to understand the author's ideas and expressing them differently without adding or omitting anything. Paraphrasing improves comprehension and ensures the ideas are truly understood since they must be stated in one's own words. It can be used for note-taking from references for papers or when a detailed understanding of difficult concepts is needed. To paraphrase properly, one must read thoroughly, check word meanings, focus on restating ideas rather than words, avoid directly copying phrases, and compare the paraphrase to the original to ensure accuracy.

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    Paraphrasing restates a passage's ideas in your own words while retaining the original meaning. It requires carefully analyzing the passage to understand the author's ideas and expressing them differently without adding or omitting anything. Paraphrasing improves comprehension and ensures the ideas are truly understood since they must be stated in one's own words. It can be used for note-taking from references for papers or when a detailed understanding of difficult concepts is needed. To paraphrase properly, one must read thoroughly, check word meanings, focus on restating ideas rather than words, avoid directly copying phrases, and compare the paraphrase to the original to ensure accuracy.

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    Paraphrasing restates a passage's ideas in your own words while retaining the original meaning. It requires carefully analyzing the passage to understand the author's ideas and expressing them differently without adding or omitting anything. Paraphrasing improves comprehension and ensures the ideas are truly understood since they must be stated in one's own words. It can be used for note-taking from references for papers or when a detailed understanding of difficult concepts is needed. To paraphrase properly, one must read thoroughly, check word meanings, focus on restating ideas rather than words, avoid directly copying phrases, and compare the paraphrase to the original to ensure accuracy.

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    PARAPHRASING

    What is paraphrasing?
    A paraphrase restates a passage's ideas in your own words. The author's
    meaning is retained, but your own wording, instead of the author's, is
    used. In paraphrasing, you must pay careful attention to the meaning
    of the original passage, yet express the same idea in a different way.
    Paraphrasing makes you pay close attention to the author's ideas, and
    therefore improves your level of understanding. None of the original
    meaning is left out, and nothing is added. Always, one of the best ways
    to make sure that you understand some idea is to see if you can state it
    in your own words.
    When to paraphrase:
    • Paraphrasing can serve as a form of note-taking, allowing you to
    retain the writer's exact meaning in the terms that you can remember
    best.
    • When reading reference sources for information for a research paper,
    paraphrasing is a means of recording information from each source in
    note form for later use in writing your paper.
    • Paraphrasing is also useful when dealing with material for which
    exact, detailed comprehension is required.
    • Paraphrasing is helpful for understanding extremely difficult or
    complicated passages that must be worked out word by word.
    An example of a paraphrase:
    Read the first four lines of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay and think
    about how you would restate what they say:
    Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
    Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
    Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
    And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
    A paraphrase to these lines might be: Love cannot take care of all our
    needs. It cannot provide food or shelter or help us sleep or keep us
    from drowning.
    How to paraphrase:
    1. Read the passage through carefully before starting to paraphrase.
    (Often one sentence that is not clear by itself becomes clear as you
    read on.)
    2. Check a dictionary for meanings of unfamiliar words. The dictionary
    may give you simpler language for the idea.
    3. Paraphrase by idea, whether the idea is stated in a phrase or in
    several sentences; do not try to paraphrase word by word. Try to follow
    the development of ideas in the passage.
    4. As you write each sentence of your paraphrase, do not look at the
    original passage. You want to show that you understand the ideas, not
    that you can just change a word around here or there. Good advice for
    honest paraphrasing: Do not use more than three words in a row from
    the original.
    5. You may find that changing the order of ideas will help you use your
    own wording.
    6. After you have finished your paraphrase, compare it to the original
    to see if you are satisfied with the accuracy and completeness of your
    notes.

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