Paraphrasing

As you begin to research, you will be bombarded with huge amounts of material, all of which will not directly relate to your short story. Therefore, you want to learn to paraphrase information that you find that you think might be helpful. 

 

Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words

Paraphrasing is one way to use a text in your own writing without directly quoting source material. Anytime you are taking information from a source that is not your own, you need to specify where you got that information.

 

A paraphrase is...

• Your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.
• One legitimate way (when accompanied by accurate documentation) to borrow from a source.
• A more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea.

Paraphrasing is a valuable skill because...

• It is better than quoting information from an undistinguished passage.
• It helps you control the temptation to quote too much.
• The mental process required for successful paraphrasing helps you to grasp the full meaning of the original.

Six Steps to Effective Paraphrasing

1. Reread the original passage until you understand its full meaning.
2. Set the original aside, and write your paraphrase on a note card being careful to only read a paragraph or two so that you do not clutter your brain with too much information.
3. Jot down a few words below your paraphrase to remind you later how you envision using this material. At the top of the note card, write a key word or phrase to indicate the subject of your paraphrase. Or divide your notes into categories. In this case, historical person, historical place and time period.  Highlight each notecard with a different color so that it is easy to organize the parts of your story.
4. Check your rendition with the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information in a new form. Pretend that you are simplifying the information in the passage for your little brother or sister (not too little but younger than high school age).
5. Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phraseology you have borrowed exactly from the source.
6. Record the source (including the page) on your note card so that you can credit it easily in your Works Cited sheet.

Let's look at an original passage that has been paraphrased:

Original Passage

On narrow lanes off the main avenues could be found the cramped and smelly homes of London's poor workers, who often threw household trash, including leftovers from the preparation of meals and human and animal wastes, outside their front doors. Passersby also added to the stench due to their lack of hygiene and inaccessibility of restrooms. The foulest of these backstreets earned the name of Stinking Lane. Due to the disgusting conditions and the closeness of the houses to each other, the Londoners were always in fear of an epidemic or the complete destruction of their living areas by fire. Crime was also rampant enough for people to hire attendants with torches to discourage thieves lurking in the darkness.

Paraphrased Passage

London was not only cramped but also smelly due to wastes in the streets and the lack of hygiene of the people. Because the conditions were less than antiseptic and the houses were so poorly built and close together, Londoners lived in fear of disease, fire and assailants.

  Writing 3D - Paraphrasing

Now let's see how you do! Paraphrase the passage below remembering to put it in your own words and choose major points to paraphrase. 

Original Passage

Henry VIII's foreign affairs were as turbulent as his domestic ones. At the beginning of his reign, England was firmly allied with Spain due to Henry's marriage to the Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who funded Christopher Columbus on his search for the New World. At the time of Henry's marriage, England was a Catholic country but after Henry rejected Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn, Henry changed the national religion of England to Protestantism in order to divorce Catherine.

Henry's England also had a long history of hostility with France. "Magnificent, liberal, and a great enemy of the French," wrote the Venetian ambassador of Henry on his coronation day. Henry hoped to re-take lands across the English Channel that France had taken from England. He waged two wars against France for this purpose. Although Henry held many grand meetings with the French King, Francis I, one observer noted, "These sovereigns hate each other very cordially."

This assignment is worth 20 points. 

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