Paraphrasing - Mrs. B., Library Media

Paraphrasing is

• when you copy and paste.

• when you take someone else´s speech or writing and put it in your own words.

• when you quote information.

• when you go to a website.

Check all that apply. When you paraphrase

• you are more likely to remember what you read.

• you will understand what you read better.

• you will see what parts you don understand

• you are cheating.

An important step of paraphrasing is to

• reduce, reuse, recycle

• copy word for word

• read the original text carefully

• never use your own words

It is important to paraphrase

• so you are not plagiarizing

• so you have information in your own words

• so you are not taking someone else´s words or writing.

• all of the above

Which is a paraphrased version of this sentence?

Elephants are one of the biggest animals in Africa.

• Lions are big animals.

• Elephants are one of the biggest animals in Africa.

• One of the largest mammals in Africa is the elephant.

• Elephants are big.

A strategy to help you PARAPHRASE is to

• Copy word for word

• Reword - replace a word you know with a synonym (a word with the same meaning)

• Use quotation marks

• don't paraphrase - that's bad to do

Paraphrasing is important because

• it helps us use information without plagiarizing

• it helps us understand what we read

• it shows us what parts of a text we don't understand if we can't paraphrase it

• all of the above