Paraphrasing – Concept, Techniques and Its Uses
Paraphrasing
- What is paraphrasing?
- To paraphrase is to say something in a different way, using your own words.
- Paraphrasing is the process of borrowing ideas, language, or phrases from another person’s writing, and rewriting them using our own language and sentence patterns.
- Understand the techniques of paraphrasing?
- Change from a Clause to a Phase (or vice versa)
- Change from Quoted Speech to Indirect Speech (or vice versa)
- Change from Active Voice to Passive Voice (or vice versa)
- Change to Synonyms
- Change Word Forms
Steps to Paraphrasing sentence:
- Read the original text until you understand its meaning well; then set it aside.
- Use your memory to write down the main points or concepts.
- Rewrite the text by varying the opening, changing the order of sentences, lengthening or shortening sentences, etc.
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