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CAD Faculty Help Center
Paraphrasing
The CAD courses teach students to perform three essential steps in
the process of paraphrasing.
- First, read critically and understand precisely what you are planning
on paraphrasing. Concentrate on the meaning of the paragraph, the
sentence or the phrase.
- Second, rewrite in your own words, without looking at the original,
what you believe the author means to say.
- Third, compare your rewritten version with the original to determine
if yours
- means essentially the same thing, and
- is different enough from the original to qualify
as a paraphrase.
After completing these three steps, students are referred to the APA
system for writing in-text citations and reference lists. It is reiterated
that all borrowed ideas, words, phrases or sentences must be cited with
reference to the author of the original, or the source the student found
it in.
It is also shown to students via examples and exercises that summaries
and translations are forms of paraphrase, and that these too must conform
to the original meaning without distortion, and must be cited.
Connect to this page to see a process for avoiding plagiarism with
which students are familiar.
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