English for Academic and

Professional Purposes
(EAPP)
A short lecture created by:
James Euric A. Llamado, LPT
Professor:
Hazel Marie L. Rabano, LPT
Our Lady of Fatima University
College of Arts and Sciences
AGENDA:

1. PARAPHRASING

a. What

b. Why

c. How
What is your idea of
Paraphrasing?
 What do you
think of this? POOR PARAPHRASE

ORIGINAL VERSION

“I have always been fascinated with

politics and government. I want to
work in the government when I
graduate from college and
hopefully create a path to be an
elected official. This new position
seemed like a natural position for
me.”
- Maxwell Habbit (Junior), school board
officer
Maxwell Habbit has always been
fascinated with politics and
government. That's why this junior
felt the school board position was
natural for him; he even hopes to be
an elected official later in life.
 What is 1

PARAPHRASING? is using your own words to

express someone else’s
ideas while still preserving the
main ideas of the original
2 source.

is a restatement of the meaning of a text or

passage using other words.

is REWRITING another person’s words so that the

original meaning of their idea is maintained but the
STRUCTURE AND WORDS YOU USE are different.
 TO AVOID
PLAGIARISM!!!
Why do we need to
PARAPHRASE?
 Reread the original passage until you
understand its full meaning.

Circle the specialized words.

How do we
Underline keywords that can be changed.
PARAPHRASE?
Find alternative words for the keywords.

Set the original aside, and write your

paraphrase on a note card.

Check your rendition with the original to

make sure that your version accurately
expresses all the essential information in a
new form.
LET US TRY THIS!
 LET US TRY THIS!

ORIGINAL VERSION POOR PARAPHRASE

Because building on the work of

others is one of the defining
characteristics of academic
writing, academic writers have
developed standard systems that
clearly identify where specific
ideas came from, and that direct
other interested persons to these
same sources (Taylor, 2003, p.
186).
Because working with the text of others
is one of the key characteristics of
academic writing, academic writers
have created standard systems that
identify where key ideas come from,
and that point other interested people
to these same sources (Taylor, 2003).
 LET US TRY THIS!
ORIGINAL VERSION
Because building on the work of
others is one of the defining
characteristics of academic
writing, academic writers have
developed standard systems that
clearly identify where specific
ideas came from, and that direct
other interested persons to these
same sources (Taylor, 2003, p.
186).
BETTER BUT STILL PLAGIARIZED
Incorporating others’ ideas into
academic writing is part of what
makes it different from other writing;
for this reason, specific ways of citing
sources have been established to help
readers to know where ideas have
come from and how to locate original
texts (Taylor, 2003).
 LET US TRY
THIS!
ORIGINAL VERSION
Because building on the work of
others is one of the defining
characteristics of academic
writing, academic writers have
developed standard systems that
clearly identify where specific
ideas came from, and that direct
other interested persons to these
same sources (Taylor, 2003, p.
186).
NOT PLAGIARIZED!!!
Academic writing follows
established rules and conventions
for citing source material so that
authors can acknowledge their
intellectual debts to their peers and
readers can further their research in
the same field (Taylor, 2003, p. 186).
Taylor considers this reliance on
other scholars to be a hallmark of
academic writing.
 LET US TRY
THIS!

ORIGINAL VERSION NOT SO GOOD

Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking

In research papers students often
notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final
quote excessively, failing to keep
[research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your
quoted material down to a desirable
final manuscript should appear as directly quoted
level. Since the problem usually
matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of
originates during note taking, it is
exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes.
essential to minimize the material
Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed.
recorded verbatim (Lester, 1976 46-47).
(1976): 46-47.
Go back and analyze the first
example.

Note: Try to construct a better paraphrased statement of it and

write your version. Go on and try!
You can do this!
POOR PARAPHRASE

ORIGINAL VERSION

“I have always been fascinated with

politics and government. I want to
work in the government when I
graduate from college and
hopefully create a path to be an
elected official. This new position
seemed like a natural position for
me.”
- Maxwell Habbit (Junior), school board
officer
Maxwell Habbit has always been
fascinated with politics and
government. That's why this junior
felt the school board position was
natural for him; he even hopes to be
an elected official later in life.
Thank You!
Hazel Marie L. Rabano, LPT
Our Lady of Fatima University
Senior High School

hlrabano@fatima.edu.ph
 Thank You!
Presentation by:

James Euric A. Llamado, LPT

Our Lady of Fatima University
Senior High School

eullamado@ymail.com

The EAPP professor acknowledges the author of this presentation.