#155 Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is often defined as putting a passage from an author into your own words. However, what are your own words? How different must your paraphrase be from the original? The answer is it should be [1] different. The whole point of paraphrasing is to show you have read and understood another person's ideas, and can summarize them in your own writing style rather than borrowing their phrases. If you just change a few words, or add some bits [2] your own to an otherwise reproduced passage, you will probably [3] for plagiarism. You should aim to condense and simplify a writer's ideas and describe them using different sentence structures and expressions. [4] also important to credit the original writer by referencing.