Paraphrasing

1.) the difference between Plagiarizing and paraphrasing is that in plagiarzing you just copy and paste the words and say that it is you. Also sometimes someone can use the same work but just change a couple words (that is still plagiarizing). Although in paraphrasing you read, skim through the work and write in YOUR OWN words.

2.) How to Paraphrase:

1. Find a website that has great information on the topic you are working on.
2. skim or read through a paragraph you need to use for your post or work.
3. find a couple words that you think are major points that you need.
4. then use the words that you thought were important , and put them into your own words.
5. you can also make a link or write their name from the site/person you got the information from. that tells the reader were you got the information from and to check that site out.

3.) Here's an example of paraphrasing:

The paragraph Im going to paraphrase.

They were clever people. They adapted to their environment. They built canoes to fish and hunt. They filled the marshes with a combination of reeds and stones and dirt to create more farmland. They built dams and dikes to free even more land. Their engineers successfully built a bustling city, with wide plazas and many shops, on a swamp.


Paraphrased:

The Aztec people were very smart. They were adapted in the their environment by fishing and hunting. They had a very special way to create farmland, they filled marshes with reeds, stone and dirt. To get more space ion their land they built dams and dikes. The engineers built a busy city with wide plazas and many shops, on their swampy land.


http://www.aztec-history.com/ The link of the website were i got the paragraph.


4.) I think I paraphrase pretty well, although i get stuck on a few sentences easily. The part in paraphrasing that i have difficulty is putting it into my own words.