Paraphrasing Lecture Review

Understanding Paraphrasing: A Comprehensive Guide

What is Paraphrasing?

• Paraphrasing involves incorporating information and ideas from external sources into your own writing, using your own words.

• It allows you to share concepts from a text without directly quoting the original author's specific wording.

• Effective paraphrasing requires both different wording and a distinct sentence structure compared to the source material.

Distinguishing Writing from Content

• Writing: Refers to the method or style used to communicate information and ideas.

• Content: Encompasses the actual factual information, concepts, and ideas that the writing conveys.

Paraphrasing vs. Quoting

Paraphrasing

• Does not use quotation marks.

• Requires rephrasing with different words and sentence structures.

• Can be introduced with your own phrasing.

• Always necessitates proper citation to acknowledge the original source.

Quoting

• Requires enclosure within quotation marks.

• Uses the exact same wording as the original source.

• Must be introduced (e.g.,