Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

Introduction

Paraphrasing

An essential skill that restates the meaning of a passage or text by using other similar words is known as Paraphrasing. The word 'paraphrase' is driven from a Latin word 'paraphrasis' that means “additional manner of expression”. Paraphrasing helps in clarifying and explaining the text, which is already being paraphrased by others. Paraphrasing and correctly citing the original author is of great importance in any of the research work as one cannot use the work of other's in his or her own research work as it is against the copyright law (Morey et.al, 1993). Using the work of other does require ...