Pharaphrase Without Plagiarising

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Hye everyone! How are you? I am going to share on what I had learn in the ELC last Thursday. This entry is about how to write a paraphrase correctly without plagiarize it. What is the meaning of paraphrase?According to Plotnick J (n.d.), paraphrase is to restate someone else ideas in our own words at roughly the same level of detail. In my understanding, paraphrase is we change the words or that sentences into something new but must be the same meaning from the author's idea.

Look at the picture above. What can you conclude regarding from the picture above? Okay, what can I conclude that, as a student we can't just simply copy all the internet sources to complete our assignments. This is because, as we learn before plagiarism is an act which steal's other people work without their consent. Thus, it is important to learn how to paraphrase any articles that we read in the internet because the content or the ideas is belong to the author.

There are three methods of paraphrasing such as grammar help method, retelling method and chunking method. Grammar help method is the simplest way to paraphrase by changing grammar and vocabulary to form a new sentence. It is important to maintain the original sentence. The second method is retelling method is another way to paraphrase. From my reading, the retelling method is we try to explain the meaning of the text by our own words and for the last method is known as chunking method which is often used when there is a longer paragraph. Chunk the original text into manageable pieces and explaining the meaning of each chunk using your own words.

Therefore,  paraphrasing  citing is important as we mentioning the authors and giving credit to them. Besides that, paraphrase allows you to decide which part of the source is most important to use and indirectly avoid plagiarism among the students. That's all and see yaa for the next entry!