Techniques of Paraphrasing

Afroza Akhter Tina

Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Daffodil International University
 Why needed?...
• Paraphrasing is common when writing an
essay or research paper. It allows you to
explain important ideas in your own writing
style and focus on the information that is most
useful in making your point. Even when you
put someone else's ideas into your own
words, you must cite the source of your
information.
 What is it?
• Writing the meaning of the author's ideas in
your own ways. You use some of the author's
key terms, but you use many of your own
words and sentence structures.
• Paraphrasing for acknowledgment and
clarification. Paraphrase to summarize and
organize a person's thinking. Paraphrase to
“shift level of abstraction” – shifting the
thinking to a more abstract label.
 4 R's:

• Read
• Restate
• Recheck
• Repair
 Basic tips
• Start your first sentence at a different point
from that of the original source.
• Use synonyms (words that mean the same
thing)
• Change the sentence structure (e.g. from
active to passive voice)
• Break the information into separate
sentences.
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