Paraphrase

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Paraphrase

• Powerpoint presentation created by Sarah LaDow

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What is a paraphrase?

• A paraphrase is the incorporation of an authors
  ideas into your text in your own words and
  sentence structures
• For various reasons, the court system should
  be avoided at all costs. Charles Dickens argues
  in Bleak House that it would be better to put up
  with whatever evils are inflicted upon you than
  to take a suit to court (15). While such a
  feeling seems melodramatic, a quick review of
  court cases that have been mishandled or
  unnecessarily prolonged provide ample evidence
  for Dickens assertion.

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Steps to the paraphrase

• Read the passage more than once and slowly. Look
  up any words you arent familiar withalso
  consider the multiple meanings possible in a word
  to test your understanding of the passage
• Keep the source out of sight as you write a
  paraphrase
• Do NOT substitute synonyms for some or most of
  the words in an authors passagethis will lead
  to plagiarism
• Use your own sentence structure and your own
  words
• Do not comment or interpret just tell readers
  the ideas that the author of the source presents
• Check your text against the original source
• Cite the author and the page number (this should
  be fully integrated just as a quote)

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Works Cited ?

• Yes. Anytime you cite a source in the text, it
  should appear on a works cited page at the end of
  your paper in MLA format

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Works Cited

• Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers. 3rd ed. New York
  Houghton Mifflin, 2002.