3 rewrite a passage in your own words while conveying the original meaning

4 it demonstrates that you understand the source material and have processed it well enough to write it in your own words

Use a Different Word Form.

Change from the Active to the Passive.

Change the word order.

Note only technical terminology which cannot be paraphrased.

Hide the original. ...

Jot down rough notes about your understanding of the text's main message. ...

Now polish those notes into academic English.

• Paraphrasing is a useful strategy to check to be sure that you have understood when reading something difficult or something that is important to remember.

• If you cannot paraphrase after reading, it is important to go back and reread to clarify information.

Summarising is putting key words together from the text.

to paraphrase you have to read carefully and make sure you use your own words or style .

it’s important in academic learning as it shows you understand someone else’s work without copying or stealing the work or words

some else say it with

your own words

"you can either quote or paraphrase literary texts"

- Paraphrasing involves rewording a specific passage or idea in detail, often maintaining the same length as the original text, while the focus is on clarity and understanding.

- Summarizing condenses the main ideas or points of a larger text into a shorter version, capturing only the essential information and omitting details. Summaries are typically much shorter than the original text.

1. Paraphrasing:

- Involves restating a specific passage in your own words without changing the original meaning.

- The paraphrase is generally about the same length as the original text.

2. Summarizing:

- Involves condensing a longer piece of text to its main ideas.

- A summary is significantly shorter than the original, capturing only the key points.

- It omits details and focuses on giving a broad overview of the content.

- Used to provide a brief outline of the main ideas.

1. Understand the Original Text:

- Read the passage thoroughly to grasp 2. Identify Key Points:

- Focus on the most important ideas in the text.

- Break the original text into smaller parts if needed.

3. Use Synonyms and Rephrase:

- Replace words and phrases with synonyms, but be cautious not to change technical terms or important keywords.

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4. Simplify or Clarify:

- If the original text is complex, simplify it without losing meaning.

- Focus on clarity, especially if the original text is wordy or difficult to follow.

5. Compare with the Original:

- After writing your paraphrase, compare it with the original to ensure that you haven’t missed any key ideas or altered the meaning.

- Make sure the paraphrased version is in your own words, not too similar to the original text.

### 6. Cite the Source (if needed):

Original sentence:

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Paraphrased sentence:

“A fast brown fox leaps over a dog that is resting.”

Both sentences convey the same idea, but the wording is different.

Original: "The cat chased the mouse."

Paraphrase: "The mouse was chased by the cat."

2. Use synonyms: Replace words with their synonyms, but be careful not to change the meaning.

Original: "She was delighted by the news."

Paraphrase: "She was thrilled by the announcement."

3. Break up long sentences: Split long sentences into shorter ones, or combine shorter ones into a longer sentence.

Original: "He studied hard for the exam, but he still found it difficult."

Paraphrase: "Despite his intense studying, he found the exam challenging."

4. Change word forms: Alter the forms of words, such as changing nouns to verbs or adjectives to adverbs.

Original: "The teacher gave an explanation."

Paraphrase: "The teacher explained."

5. Summarize or clarify: You can express the main idea more simply or in a way that's easier to understand.

Original: "The project was abandoned due to unforeseen complications."

Paraphrase: "Unexpected problems caused them to stop working on the project."

When paraphrasing, it’s important to ensure that the meaning remains consistent with the original text, and you avoid directly copying too much of the wording.

1. Read the original source carefully. ...

2. Identify the main point(s) and key words.

3. Cover the original text and rewrite it in your own words. ...

4. Write the paraphrase in your own style. ...

5. Review your paraphrase to check it accurately reflects the original text but is in your words and style.

allowing you to present ideas in your own words while maintaining the original meaning.paraphrasing allows you to tailor information to suit your argument or writing style, making your work more cohesive and engaging.

A.H

Whereas summarising involves condensing the main points into a shorter form, summarising helps you to demonstrate your understanding of the original text.

Paraphrasing is translating a full passage into your own words and responding or expanding upon what was written originally. 

How is paraphrasing different from summarizing?

When you summarize, you make the original text shorter. When you paraphrase, you keep the original text the same length, but you change the words.

1Change active to passive

2Change the structure

3Put the original text into your own words

Why is paraphrasing important in academic writing?

Paraphrasing is important in academic writing because it shows that you understand the original text and can put it into your own words. It also helps you to avoid plagiarism, which is when you use someone else's work without giving them credit.

Paraphrasing means rephrasing or restarting information from a source in your own words, while keeping the original meaning for example some information like proper noun can not be changed.

How is paraphrasing different to summarising?

Paraphrasing and summarising both involve rephrasing details. Paraphrasing rewrites a specific passage in your own words while maintaining its original details but they differ in purpose and detail. Summarising, on the other hand, condenses the main ideas of a larger text into a shorter version, omitting less relevant details to provide an overview. Paraphrasing is useful for explaining specific ideas, while summarising is ideal for presenting the core message of a broader text.

How can we paraphrase?

By using similar words, change verbs, or adjective to noun phrases, by changing active voice to passive voice.

Why is paraphrasing is important in academic writing?

To understand the topic, to avoid plagiarism, to improve clarity, to support critical thinking.

This writing technique helps you avoid plagiarism and create content that resonates with your audience and ranks well on search engines.

Write someone else’s idea with your own word without changing meaning.

Use synonyms, rearrange the sentence structure, adding or removing parts, change active voice to passive voice and vice versa.

Paraphrasing is the process of rephrasing or rewriting information from a source in your own words while keeping the original meaning intact.

2. How is paraphrasing different to summarising?

Paraphrasing involves rewording all or most of the original text in detail, whereas summarising condenses the main ideas into a shorter version.

3. How can we paraphrase?

We can paraphrase by:

• Reading the original text carefully.

• Identifying the key points.

• Rewriting the content in our own words, using different sentence structures and vocabulary.

• Ensuring the meaning stays the same.

• Citing the source to avoid plagiarism.

4. Why is paraphrasing important in academic writing?

Paraphrasing is important because it demonstrates your understanding of the material, allows you to integrate evidence into your writing, and helps avoid plagiarism while giving proper credit to the original author.

We can paraphrase by carefully rewriting text into your own words while preserving the original meaning - eg, read and understand the text, highlight key ideas etc.

Paraphrasing is important in academic writing for several reasons, it allows writers to demonstrate understanding, avoid plagiarism and contribute to scholarly discussion effectively

Demonstrates understanding, requires deep understanding of the given topic. It allows to incorporate internal and external ideas to align them with you argument or perspective.

Paraphrasing is the process of rewording or rephrasing a sentence or passage in your own words while retaining the original meaning.

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How is ‘paraphrasing’ different to ‘summarising’? It is different because summarising is gathering all the information and summing it all up

How can we paraphrase? Using different words and the structure of the text

YOUNES

How is paraphrasing different to summarising? - paraphrasing rewrites text in full detail, while summarising condenses it to the main points.

How can we paraphrase? - you can paraphrase by reading the original text carefully, understanding its meaning, and then rewriting it in our own words while keeping the original intent and details intact.

Why is paraphrasing important in academic writing? - Paraphrasing is important in academic writing as it demonstrates understanding of source material, avoids plagiarism, and integrates evidence and ideas seamlessly into your own work.

The purpose of paragraphing is to signal shifts in thinking and give readers a rest.

Paragraphing is "a way of making visible to the reader the stages in the writer's thinking"

Summarising is basically understanding the concept and shortening it, keeping it brief.

We can paraphrasing by using synonyms, changing verbs of adjectives, change active to passive voice etc.

• Rewrites the text in detail, keeping the same meaning.  

2. Summarising:

• Focuses only on the most important points.

2. Use Synonyms: Replace words with similar meanings where appropriate.

1. Avoids Plagiarism: Proper paraphrasing ensures you don’t copy text directly, helping to maintain academic integrity.

2. Shows Understanding: Demonstrates that you fully understand the source material.

Paraphrasing is changing the wording of a sentence

How is paraphrasing different to summarising?

Paraphrasing is not shorting the whole points in the sentence that is a summary

How can we paraphrase?

Using different synonyms and wording to change the order of the sentence

Why is paraphrasing important in academic writing!

It is important to not get plagiarism for copying but showing you understand what you have read and use your own words

Summarizing condenses a text into a shorter version, focusing on the main points and leaving out details

How is paraphrasing different from summarizing?

Paraphrasing and summarizing are different in these ways:

1. Paraphrasing: Rewrites the text in your own words but keeps all the details and meaning of the original.

2. Summarizing: Gives a brief overview, focusing only on the main ideas and leaving out details.

In short, paraphrasing is detailed, while summarizing is concise.

How can we paraphrase?

To paraphrase:

Understand the original text.

Rewrite it in your own words.

Change the structure and use synonyms.

Keep the meaning the same.

Cite the source if needed.

Why is paraphrasing important in academic writing?

Paraphrasing is important in academic writing because it allows you to use information from sources without copying directly, helping to avoid plagiarism. It demonstrates your understanding of the material and shows your ability to explain ideas in your own words. Paraphrasing also helps integrate various sources into your writing, creating a smoother flow of ideas, and can simplify complex concepts for better readability while maintaining the original meaning.

2.Take notes about our thoughts

3.Compare the original and our version

4.Quote all the unique terms borrowed from the published source

5.Cite the sources to credit it in our paperwork

2.Transforms dense academic language into clearer or more modern text

2- Paraphrasing is restating all of the ideas and details in a text, while summarizing is restating the central idea of the text.

3- Identify the main point(s) and key words. Cover the original text and rewrite it in your own words.

Paraphrasing can be done by trying to remember what someone has said and quoting it.

Paraphrasing restates the original idea in your own words, while summarizing condenses the main points into a shorter version.

To paraphrase, read the original text, understand its meaning, then rewrite it in your own words using different phrasing and sentence structure.

Paraphrasing is important in academic writing because it helps avoid plagiarism, demonstrates understanding of the material, and allows you to integrate sources smoothly into your own work while maintaining your voice. MK

Paraphrasing is when information is interpreted in your own words.

2) How is paraphrasing different to summering?

Paraphrasing is changing of words and summering is overview of the whole source.

3) How can we paraphrase?

We can change words and put information in your own words.

4) why paraphrasing is important in academic writing?

It'sto avoid plagiarism and show understanding of the source.

Paraphrasing is expressing someone else’s ideas or thoughts in your own words while maintaining the original meaning

Paraphrasing is different than summarising because we used our own words or expression from some else idea’s. Summarising is the action to reduce the most important point of someone else’s idea or work into a shorter one.

We can paraphrase using the citations and references from the original text.

The paraphrasing is important in the academic writing to show or demonstrate the understanding, integration and avoid plagiarism, this must be reflect it on own work.

This is different to summarising as you do not shorten the length of the original piece of work instead you are rewording the writing.

Paraphrasing is saying something in your own words without changing the meaning.

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Paraphrasing keeps all the details in your own words.

Summarising gives only the main points in a shorter way.

3

Read and understand the text.

Use your own words to say the same thing.

Don’t copy.

Keep the meaning the same.

(Sorin A.A.)

• Paraphrasing means rewriting something in your own words without changing the length or detail too much. The goal is to restate the same idea in a new way.

• Summarising means condensing the original text by only keeping the main points. It’s usually much shorter than the original.

Read and understand the sentence

Make sure you know what it means before you try to change it.

Use your own words

Say the same thing in a different way, using words that are easier or more natural for you.

Change the sentence structure

You can change the order of words, or split one long sentence into two shorter ones.

Keep the meaning the the same

Even if the words are different, the idea should stay the same.

Shows understanding

It proves that you really understand the information, not just copying it. You’re able to explain it in your own words.

Avoids plagiarism

Using someone else’s exact words without credit is plagiarism. Paraphrasing (with proper citation) helps you use ideas without copying.

Fits your style

Paraphrasing lets you make outside information match your writing tone, flow, and level of complexity.

Helps with clarity

Sometimes the original text is too complex or wordy. Paraphrasing can make the idea clearer or easier for your reader to understand.

Builds strong arguments

Instead of just quoting, paraphrasing lets you blend research smoothly into your own analysis and connect it with your points.

-Paraphrasing involves citing or quoting the writer’s ideas, keeping the same meaning. Whereas, summarising involves reducing a piece of information to shorter main key points.

-By breaking up few sentences, re-writing it in your own words, giving credits to the author.

-It is important because it shows you have comprehended the text, by writing it in your own words.

Becky

Summarising isn’t as explanatory

We can paraphrase by writing someone else’s point in our own words

Paraphrasing is important to back up your argument

Summarising: Summarising is restating the ideas of an author in your own words.

Quoting: Quoting involves using the exact words of an author in your text. This should not be done often (less than 5% of an assignment) (Day, 2018, p. 178).

Summarising is summing up all the points previously said or coming to a conclusion

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2-Paraphrasing involves rephrasing a specific passage or idea while maintaining a similar level of detail as the original text. Summarizing, on the other hand, condenses the main points of a larger text into a shorter overview, omitting most of the supporting details. 

3-start by fully understanding the original text. Then, restate the information in your own words, using different sentence structures and vocabulary, while maintaining the original meaning

4-Paraphrasing is important because it shows you understand the source well enough to write it in your own words.

short and only keeping in the main information

Too paraphrasing is to rewrite what you have read and not condense or make an assumption of the subject.

While summarizing means rewriting something in your own words but shortening it by stating only the main idea and the supporting points you need for you purposes.

Write it in your own words without looking at the original.

Compare your paraphrase with the original.

Ensure you have appropriately cited and referencedvthe original text

Paraphrasing is important because it shows you understand the source well enough to write it in your own words.

Elham

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Summarizing is shortening the idea, only keeping the main points.

Think about how you would explain it to a friend using your own words.

Say it in a different way without changing the meaning.

It helps avoid plagiarism (copying someone else’s words).

It lets you use research while keeping your own voice.

It makes your writing clearer and more original.

In simple terms:

Paraphrasing = Saying the same thing in a different way.

Example

Original:

“Technology has changed the way people communicate.”

Paraphrased:

“The use of technology has transformed how humans interact with one another.”

Same idea, different words and structure.

Summarising = Reducing ideas

1. Read & Understand – make sure you fully understand the original idea.

2. Identify Key Points – pick out the main message.

3. Change Structure – use a different sentence order or grammar.

4. Use Synonyms – replace words with similar ones (without changing meaning).

5. Keep the Same Meaning – don’t add or remove ideas.

6. Cite the Source – always mention the author and year.

2. Paraphrasing is maintains similar detail while summarizing condenses the main ideas into main or core concepts

3. We paraphrase by reading and understanding the text then write it in our own words without looking qt tge source thus explaining our own understanding of the original text.

4. Paraphrasing is important as it displays that a student has understood the original text

3.take note of the main ideas

Add citations,

Summarising focuses on main key points or ideas of the source