To paraphrase means to take a text and rewrite the text in
your own words. You cite a certain number of words in the follow-up to your question. If
you are being required in an assignment to paraphrase an article, that means your
professor wants you to read the article, comprehend it, and put it into meaningful
language for yourself. A paraphrase is about the same length as the article. So look for
an article that is about a page, single-spaced.
If you were
to summarize, you would look at the article and make it
smaller.
The purpose of paraphrasing is to help you look at
a difficult text that needs disecting. As you put it into words that make more sense to
you, you are more likely to remember and internalize the
information.
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