PARAPHRASING
1.
In academic writing, you will need to use other writer’s ideas to support your
own. The most common way to do this is by using paraphrase. This section
considers how to do this by first looking in more detail at what paraphrasing is,
then giving reasons for using paraphrase, and finally considering how to
paraphrase.
2.
Paraphrase is one of three ways of using another writer’s work in your own
writing, the other two being quotation and summary. The aim of paraphrasing is
to change the words in the original text, while keeping the same meaning. This is
different from quotation, which has the same words (as well as the same
meaning). As the words have been changed, a paraphrase should not use
quotation marks (“…”). Summary differs from paraphrase in that a summary is
shorter than the original, whereas a paraphrase is the same length. When you
