How to Paraphrase without Plagiarising | Essay Writing Made Easy

hey everyone and welcome back to my channel so in today's video i am going to be talking about something that i get questions about all the time all the time in my inbox i got two questions today which is why i'm addressing this in the video and it's how to paraphrase without plagiarizing now when you paraphrase you are tiptoeing on the edge of a very dangerous rope you are trying your best to rewrite some text be it from a paper be it from someone else's thesis or someone else's ideas into your own words you can very easily be called out for plagiarizing and that's something that you absolutely do not want to do i'm going to be talking about how to paraphrase whilst keeping the meaning of the text whilst rewriting the words in your own tone and also maintaining referencing and citations accurately this video is also kindly sponsored by xyro um which is a really cool platform where you are able to build your own personal or professional website and i've also got a really special discount code for you so if you want to go and support me and support my channel i'd love for you to keep on watching and don't forget to press the subscribe button and don't forget to press the bell notification to see more from me every single time that i post so the first thing you want to do to paraphrase um some text is to read the citations or to read the text that it is that you are trying to paraphrase now most likely you probably are looking at a paper and you're interested in paraphrasing some parts of that paper to add to your literature review or maybe to add to your discussion or to your essay um so the first thing you need to do is to actually read that paper um it's very difficult to paraphrase without understanding what it is that that paper or what is that the source is trying to say you then want to move on and summarize the study in your own words now this is where the paraphrasing is going to essentially occur um by magic without even trying you are going to paraphrase and that is by writing it in your own words so whatever however it is that you understood the text that you read whatever it is that you took away from it write it in your own words there's a few key concepts that you want to bear in mind whilst writing and the first is what the aims are of that paper what are the aims of this study what is the purpose or the intention of the study that you've just read that could be something that you write about secondly what's the methods and what are the key results that that paper um has mentioned so to be able to paraphrase you need to be able to say what those results are in your own words so again that could be a theme that you write about or the significance so how significant is the paper you could say the take home message in your own words what would it be also be a theme that you take away from the paper that you just read number three is where you write the sentences as your own version and there are a few things that you can do when paraphrasing one way of doing this is by starting the sentence at a different point other than following the same structure of how they've written the sentence you kind of almost flip it and start from their end and make that your beginning and this is simply just making like a mirror image of that sentence that already would lead to having a slightly different sentence with the same meaning also use synonyms and use a thesaurus for this so rather than using the exact same words if they say that this paper shows um rather than saying shows you can go ahead and use a different word and you can use suggest or you can use illustrate just a different word so it's not going to be picked up by plagiarism checkers so sentences are either written in the active voice or the passive voice active voice is where the sentence is led by the subject whereas the passive voice is where the sentence is led by the object so again you can kind of swap that around and that can again lead to a completely different sentence with the exact same meaning rather than taking the exact same sentence and trying to rewrite it you can break it down into two ideas although it may be the same sort of meaning but by breaking it down into two different ideas you've automatically got completely different sentences that definitely won't be picked up by plagiarism checkers but do make sure that at the end of those sentences you reference the citation to ensure that you are not saying that this is your own work because ultimately that is what you are trying to do just trying to take those sentences not quote them directly but just kind of um change the sentences around a little bit to be able to um paraphrase them once you do this make sure you're constantly saying those sentences out loud and by verbalizing what it is that you're writing you can not only embed that in your memory so you understand the topic even better you're also able to ensure that what you're saying actually makes sense um a lot of the time when you're reading a text and you try to write something that's very similar to that you can end up with sentences that don't really make sense if you just take what i've said and try to flip a sentence over you might end up with sentences that don't make sense and sentences won't be coherent and it just won't flow very well so ensure that as you're writing you're constantly trying your best to vocalize what it is that you're writing and just to clarify exactly what it is that you're saying in your mind i've noticed that blogs have been quite popular they've sort of resurfaced again but in science in particular people have started to try to translate research that's out there so trying to take research that has been published in scientific forums and scientific journals and try to make them ex more accessible to the average joe to the public and so one way that you might want to do this is by paraphrasing so you've picked up a paper you've taken it from a 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Channel: Dr Amina Yonis

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Keywords: plagiarising, paraphrasing, how to paraphrase

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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 31 2020