2. 1. Read and reread the
source material until
you understand it
completely.

3. 2.Put the source material
aside and on a piece of
paper or a notecard, write
your paraphrase in your
own words and sentence
structure.

4. 3. Compare your version to
the original source,
making sure your
paraphrase is original,
accurate, complete, and
objective.

5. 4.If you find you needed to
use a unique term or phrase
from the source, make sure
you use quotes to identify
that you borrowed it for the
source.

6. 5.Record the source information
(even the page number) with
the paraphrase, so you have it
ready when you are writing
your paper and wish to
integrate this source’s ideas.

7. Original Material -
 The emergency room medical intervention
provided to the subject was deemed
suboptimal to best practices by legal
counsel, so the facility and the on-shift
physician received a legal suit declaring a
therapeutic misadventure. From Jane Doe,
p. 321
Paraphrase -
 Jane Doe reports that after the accident,
attorneys for the patient decided that the
treatment given in the emergency room
was substandard in comparison with that
of other hospitals, so they filed a
malpractice lawsuit against the doctor on
duty and the hospital (321).

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Print.
 Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. A Writer’s
Reference 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2011. Print.
 Harris, Robert. Using Sources Effectively. 3rd ed.
Glendale, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, 2011. Print.
 Howard, Rebecca Moore. Writing Matters: A
Handbook for Writing and Research. New York:
McGraw Hill, 2011. Print.
 Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell. The
Brief Wadsworth Handbook. 6th ed. Boston:
Wadsworth, 2010. Print