Indirect Quotes How to paraphrase What is Paraphrasing
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Indirect Quotes How to paraphrase…
What is Paraphrasing? • A paraphrase is a restatement of someone else’s ideas, evidence or opinions using your own words. • A paraphrase is typically similar or longer in length than the original passage. • You must still credit or cite a paraphrase unless it is common knowledge! – Why? – What things are considered general knowledge? • Exact same information is found in several sources.
Paraphrasing is a valuable skill because… • Better than quoting an average passage. • Controls the temptation to quote too much. • Helps you to grasp the full meaning of the original. • Proves to the reader you know what you are talking about.
6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing 1. Read and reread for understanding 2. Put source away 3. Write key points that you remember without looking at the source. You do not even want to use the same sentence format.
6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing 4. Compare to the original to make sure you did not miss any key information OR plagiarize anything including unique words. 5. Quote any exact borrowings. 6. Record the source.
So what should I write down? • Anything that will help you on your research paper. • Boil it down to short phrase. • Get the Citation information
Plagiarism or Acceptable Paraphrase? Original Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes. Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2 nd ed. (1976): 46 -47. . Students often use too many direct quotations when they take notes, resulting in too many of them in the final research paper. In fact, probably only about 10% of the final copy should consist of directly quoted material. So it is important to limit the amount of source material copied while taking notes.
Acceptable Paraphrase • In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46 -47).
