Paraphrasing

Source: George Mason University, The Writing Center, “When to Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote”. [https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/guides/when-to-summarize-paraphrase-and-quote ]. Consulted on May 21 2022

Source: Excelcior Online Reading Lab, Paraphrasing, [https://owl.excelsior.edu/orc/what-to-do-after-reading/paraphrasing/], Consulted on May 21 2022.

Paraphrase when you want to :

• avoid quoting
• explain a point when the exact wording is not important or possible
• explain the essential ideas of a text
• clarify a short passage from a text

Strategies involved when paraphrasing

1. Read the text you want to paraphrase and make sure you understand its meaning.
2. Write down main ideas.
3. Try not to look at the original text.
4. Explain the idea out loud or to someone else
5. Write down the new text.
6. Compare with the original text.

Paraphrasing is telling someone else's ideas in your own words.

Using all these strategies allows you to express the author's ideas in your own words as an alternative to quoting. It is called paraphrasing.

Adapted from Julie Noël et Sonia Blouin, L'art de la paraphrase, Service national du RÉCIT, domaine des langues, 2019

If you write or reformulate the ideas of others, you need to identify the source of these ideas. You also need to keep the original meaning and idea.

Change the order of ideas in the text.

Remove uncessary words or group of words.

Remove

Change order

Combining information or ideas from many sentences into one.

Replace a word or a term by a synonym.

Replace

Combining

How to Paraphrase

The Art of Paraphrasing