paraphrasing ^^

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I want to share something that is important to us as a student about paraphrasing. Paraphrasing means taking another person's idea and restating it using our own words. For me, paraphrasing can be tricky because we need to make sure that we should not copy the original author's style or wording. Even if we have a citation, such borrowing would be considered plagiarism. Besides that, paraphrase should sound like you, using vocabulary and sentence structures that your reader would recognize as your work.
To make sure we are not plagiarizing unintentionally, think about and jot down the source's main points. Besides that, write our paraphrase without looking at the original. Then, when you have finished, try to compare your paraphrase with the original which is :

*Have you simply changed a few words to synonyms?
Try again. Being handy with a thesaurus is not enough to make the sentence yours.

*Have you included exact sequences of words from the original?
If so, make sure to put quotation marks around those phrases, or re-write until the entire paraphrase is your words.

*Have you retained the meaning of the original?
Changing the author's meaning is not plagiarism, but academic honesty requires you to represent other's work accurately in your writing.

As we know, paraphrasing are considered acceptable and legitimate, it should fulfill three condition which is your paraphrase must have the same meaning as the original, you should use your own words and you should cite the original.