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Paraphrasing Handout Directions: Please complete this today. 1. Explain what paraphrasing is in your own words.

2. What are some of the purposes of paraphrasing? (Provide at least 2 and be specific).

3. Describe at least two methods or strategies that you can use when you paraphrase.

4. Paraphrase the following paragraph. Utilize the methods we discussed in class. Remember that three words in sequence constitute plagiarism, so be very careful. Remember that a paraphrase also sometimes shortens the selected text.

Excerpted from: It's dreams we miss, not sleep: We need to dream regularly as a vital release for our emotions by Hannah Betts in The Times, February 28, 2009

It has become one of the most cherished neuroses of Western culture that we exist in a state of acute sleep deprivation, a dearth to which legions of casual complaints and magazine headlines testify. Nevertheless, the psychologist and sleep guru Rubin Naiman is equally disturbed by another deficit: namely, that 21st-century society is undergoing an epidemic of dreamlessness. Like stretching a muscle, a dream can release emotional pain, tightness from earlier in the day - or even hurt from childhood. Dreaming provides "a poetic cushion" for our sharply literal lives. Modern lifestyles interfere with healthy dreaming. Overexposure to light at night suppresses melatonin and thus dreaming.

Please show any work that you do such as: synonym method, chunking, rearranging, etc. Type or write your paraphrase here: