PARAPHRASE

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 The Purpose of our lesson is to
learn
oHow to put a passage in your
own words without changing the
meaning
oHow to find the main idea of the
text in order to paraphrase it
oHow Turnitin.com will help you.
oHow to write a Topic Sentence
Rewriting lines from songs, poems,stories and
other articles is one way of paraphrasing.
Paraphrasing is often defined as putting your
own words texts that are originally from the
author. It will make us own our ideas as
inspired by other peoples work and will keep
us from plagiarizing others works.
oPARAPHRASING IS
oUsed to rewrite the text in your
own words
oUsed to clarify meaning
oUsed to shorten a longer
statement but keep the main
ideas
oUsed to avoid PLAGIARISM.
What is NOT Paraphrasing ?

-Changing a couple
of words.
-Deleting a couple
words or phrases.
-Rearranging the
order of the words.
 So How Do We Do It?
oRead the passage
carefully PARAPHRASE
ME!
oDecide the main ideas of
the passage
oIdentify important words
or phrases
oPut the main points in
your own words
 ORIGINAL
Happiness can be found even in
the darkest of times, if one only
remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
Quote by Albus Dumbledore
PARAPHRASED
There is happiness even
during the most challenging
times and we only need to
look at the bright side.
PHOTOGRAPH
By Ed Sheeran
 LINES FROM THE SONG WHAT DO THOSE LINES MEAN
TO YOU?

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. .3
TOPIC SENTENCES
are also important!
-Every
-A topicsentence
sentenceinorganizes
the paragraph
and focuses
must relate
the entire
to the
paragraph.
topic sentence.
-A topicissentence
-There no announcing
is usually
in athe
topic
firstsentence.
sentence of the
paragraph.
 SYNTHESIS:
In being a good writer, why should
someone know how to paraphrase
sentences and not copying it word for
words?