The document discusses paraphrasing as a way to avoid plagiarism by expressing an author's ideas in your own words. Paraphrasing differs from direct quoting or summarizing as it uses the original text's ideas without copying its exact words or structure. Proper paraphrasing demonstrates understanding while allowing you to support points and perspectives with citations. Students should rephrase texts in their own words, cite sources, and avoid minimal word changes or copying structure from the original version. Examples are provided for students to practice paraphrasing.

1. Paraphrasing
Learning Outcomes:
•Avoid plagiarism by appropriately
paraphrasing sources.
•Cite correctly articles from online
databases using APA style.

2. What is paraphrasing?
• Paraphrasing is when you use your own words to
express an author’s idea.
• Paraphrasing is not a direct quote, or an exact
copy of the text.
• Paraphrasing is different from a summary in that
summaries contain only the larger, main ideas of
a text, and are shorter than the original text.

3. Why paraphrase?
• Paraphrasing shows your ability to
understand the meaning of the text.
• Paraphrasing is better than overusing
direct quotes.
• Paraphrasing, with correct citation,
allows you to use an author’s idea to
prove a point, and/or demonstrate a
point of view.

4. Paraphrasing dos and donts:
• Do use your own words to rephrase a
text.
• Do indicate the source of the text (i.e.
cite).
• Don’t just change a few words around.
• Don’t use exact words and/or
structure from the original text.

5. Give it a try!
• Let’s compare! exercise.
• Student paraphrasing exercise.

6. Give it a try!
• Let’s compare! exercise.
• Student paraphrasing exercise.