Practice Paraphrasing Skill

Paraphrasing

When you paraphrase another author's writing you rewrite their argument using your own words, phrasing and interpreting it in your own way.

How to paraphrase:

• Change the vocabulary.


• Reorganise the structure of the argument.


• Cite the author directly, for example.
  

For instance; the yellow book page 30:

The paraphrase(1):

It is generally considered that every year has bicycling death more than a thousand and head injuries are the main caused. The evidencence can prove that bike helmet is the best protector to secure in head injuries because of it absorb and soften (Smith,1990).

The paraphrase(2):

According to the skycraper, Sear Tower was built by William Lemessurier is going to be the argrument between architectors becuse they don't want to have a world's highest building. On the one hand, other architectors, Robert Sobel agree in countinuing to produce the tallest building (Bachman,1990:15).