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PARAPHRASING
• A restatement in your own words of an idea or item
of information from the work of another person.
• A method of conveying the original meaning but
change the words and sentence structure.
• is reader-friendly
PITFALLS IN PARAPHRASING:
1. Describing an author's idea/argument but not
explaining the significance to your own argument, or
the point that you are trying to make;