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Paraphrasing an Academic Paper: Is It

Legal?

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What is paraphrasing?A paraphrase is a rewriting a text or passage using other words. It can also be restatement (it is not only used in paper documents).

It comes from Latin periphrasis from Greek παράφρασις, meaning "additional manner of expression". 

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What is paraphrasing?Paraphrasing usually explains or it’s bringing clarity to the text that is being paraphrased by some paraphrasing tool. For example, “The leaf was yellow” can be 

paraphrased as “During autumn color of leaf is usually yellow”.

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“Paraphrasing is a common method of incorporating ideas from another source into your own writing. Paraphrasing occurs when you take content or ideas from an outside source and concisely rephrase or summarize the source information in your own words.”

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A University of Virginia Honor Committee Supplement

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Quotation in paraphrasing?A paraphrase don’t need to have a quote that is exactly the same as in original text, but the idea is more to explain (in writers own words) what is the original text all about in 

the same context.

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Quotation in paraphrasing?On the other side, paraphrasing is longer than creating a summary of a certain text or document. And at the end of a paraphrased text there should be source that was used for creating it. There are a lot of paragraphing services that are doing proper paragraphing. 

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“Paraphrasing plagiarism is committed when a writer summarizes an idea taken from another source and fails both to cite the author(s) and to provide the corresponding reference.”

Indiana University, School of Education

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APA and MLA style paraphrasing

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APA paraphrasing is your interpretation of original that is keeping the true meaning as 

that text. This type of paraphrasing can be difficult 

for beginners.  

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APA and MLA style paraphrasing

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In order to write in style of APA paraphrasing, person must truly understand the meaning of 

original text. Good APA paraphrasing is not so long and it is covering all main points of 

original paragraph. 

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“In writing papers, you will paraphrase more than you will quote. For a report or research paper, you may need to gather background information that is important to the 

paper but not worthy of direct quotation. Indeed, in technical writing direct quotation is rarely used.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

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APA and MLA style paraphrasing

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MLA paraphrasing is globally recommended format for paraphrasing. In all academic institutions it is preferable (or required) to use MLA format.

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APA and MLA style paraphrasing

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Guidelines for MLA paraphrasing are focusing that plagiarism should be avoided. Text or paragraph should be created again in a different way but not only copied. 

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“Submitting as one's own work, irrespective of intent to deceive, that which derives in part or in its entirety 

from the work of others without due acknowledgement."

The University of Cambridge

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Paraphrasing services

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Most usual paraphrasing services are paraphrasing, summarizing and editing.Here is one interesting book, about paraphrasing.

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Summarizing is mostly about making short summaries from long books or documents, enabling easier understanding of that content.

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Paraphrasing services

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Editing is cheapest from all paragraphing  services. 

Editing combines all kinds of formatting and proofreading.

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“In academic writing, it is considered plagiarism to draw any idea or any language from someone else without adequately crediting that source in your 

paper.”

Harvard University

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