7th Grade: Paraphrasing & Citing: Paraphrasing

• Putting someone else's facts and information into your own words.  
   
• Because it is not your information, you must include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.
   
• You must rework the entire sentence and put in your own voice.
   
• Paraphrasing is not only replacing words with synonyms.
   
• Paraphrasing is not only changing the simple word order.  
   

Original:  Ronald Reagan liked jelly beans and monkey bread.

Bad Paraphrase:  Ronald Reagan enjoyed monkey bread and jelly beans (Olver).

Better Paraphrase:  Jelly beans and monkey bread were a few of Ronald Reagan's favorite foods (Olver).

1. READ the material completely.
    
2. JOT down notes in bullet form.
    
3. DO NOT COPY notes word-for-word.
    
4. SET NOTES ASIDE and write new sentence.
    
5. COMPARE notes and your new sentence to make sure facts are correct.
    
6. INCLUDE in-text citation.