Paraphrasing Series: An in-depth look at paraphrasing strategies

Paraphrasing is an important part of academic writing. Writers rely on paraphrasing to help them use and integrate research into their writing. Paraphrasing also helps writers avoid plagiarism and merge varied research on a topic into one cohesive piece. Because paraphrasing is so valued, we have a four part series to look deeper into paraphrasing.

In this series, we look at how paraphrasing can help all students include research in their writing. If you need an overview of paraphrasing, please refer to our webpage on paraphrasing. We also have overviews of paraphrasing strategies and examples of poor paraphrases. All of this material can help provide background.

Ready to go? Here are the posts in our paraphrasing series:

• Paraphrasing: An Introduction walks writers through how paraphrasing can be used to weave together multiple sources. Senior writing instructor Matt says this is how writers can tell a "story" about the research.

• Paraphrasing Statistics tackles ways to paraphrase data. Numbers and statistics may seem difficult to repeat in new words, but our Manager of Multimedia Writing Resources, Beth, shares tips for paraphrasing statistics.

• In Paraphrasing Enhances Learning, writing instructor Kacy lists the ways that paraphrasing can help not just the writing process, but the learning process as well. Discover how paraphrasing can help you master course material.

• Paraphrasing to Avoid Plagiarism looks at how paraphrasing not only helps writers avoid overt copy-and-paste plagiarism, but how it can help writers avoid accidental plagiarism. Join Writing Instructor, Jes, as she shares her step-by-step paraphrasing process.

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