Paraphrasing
What is Paraphrasing?
Bad Paraphrase: Ronald Reagan enjoyed monkey bread and jelly beans (Olver).
Better Paraphrase: Jelly beans and monkey bread were a few of Ronald Reagan's favorite foods (Olver).
How to Paraphrase
What is Paraphrasing?
- Putting someone else's facts and information into your own words.
- Because it is not your information, you must include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.
- You must rework the entire sentence and put in your own voice.
- Paraphrasing is not only replacing words with synonyms.
- Paraphrasing is not only changing the simple word order.
Bad Paraphrase: Ronald Reagan enjoyed monkey bread and jelly beans (Olver).
Better Paraphrase: Jelly beans and monkey bread were a few of Ronald Reagan's favorite foods (Olver).
How to Paraphrase
- READ the material completely.
- JOT down notes in bullet form.
- DO NOT COPY notes word-for-word.
- SET NOTES ASIDE and write new sentence.
- COMPARE notes and your new sentence to make sure facts are correct.
- INCLUDE in-text citation.
In-text Citations - Basic Rules
In-text Citation Basics
In-text Citation Basics
- Period is always at the very end..
- If author is known, ALWAYS use author’s last name....(Goldstein 25).
- If two authors, list both authors last names. ......(Smith and Pearson).
- If three or more authors, list first last name and then et al. ......(White et al.).
- If NO author, use first word of article title. …. (“Living"). or ....("A New")
- If it is from a source with page numbers (book, magazine article, etc), ALWAYS use page number. …(Goldstein 87).
- There is NO punctuation or abbreviations (p. pp.) between author/title and page number. ......(Smith 216).
- In-text citations must match up with Works Cited page. If you have not used a source from your Works Cited page within your paper (in-text citations), that source MUST be removed from your Works Cited page.