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What is Paraphrasing?

Paraphrasing is taking someone else's ideas and putting them into your own words while keeping the same meaning. Paraphrasing is an important part of citing properly.

Here are some quick tips for paraphrasing from Harvard University.

The video below shows a couple different ways of how to paraphrase.