INTEGRATES SOMEONE'S IDEAS WITH YOUR OWN WORDS :)

CHAPTER 4 :

Assalamualaikum and Selamat Sejahtera

This entry is all about PARAPHRASING. Me myself love paraphrasing. Do you? I love it because when we are paraphrasing an article for an instance, we are developing our thinking skills to generate a lot of new ideas and boosting our thoughts. What is paraphrasing guys? Paraphrasing mean you are using your own words to restating the others idea and you are not copying their words 100%.

During paraphrasing you have to make sure that you use a proper word that are related with the original sentence. Some students also tend to make the changing of words like substituting word into the thesaurus. However if you are using inappropriate synonyms you might change the whole sentences and you need to beware of that and do make sure that you are exactly know the meaning of your substitution words. 

Here, there are three conditions to do paraphrasing with a proper ways.

• When you are paraphrasing any word or sentence, it must have the same meaning with the original text where you should include all the important ideas and points that the writer want to deliver to the readers. You also have to make sure that you did not add up any new ideas inside your text because want to make it more beautiful.
• Next, you have to use your own word as much as you can so that your sentence will not so closed as the writer original sentence. You can do this by changing a lot of new vocabulary that relate with the author's text. On top of that, a good use of vocabulary will guarantee increase your mark when dealing with your assignment or project work right ?
• You also need to cite the the sources of reference that you got because you were paraphrasing others work and not doing it by your own ideas. You can check APA-style citation to cite correctly your author's work. 

There are also three method of paraphrasing people's work which is grammar help method, retelling help method and chunking help method.

For grammar help method, you need to change the grammar and the vocabulary of the original sentences but yet still maintaining the author's meaning. This method is often been using when we were doing our summary essay during primary and secondary school before. During the matriculation time also we are done with this method for our English subject. This technique is very easy to master especially for the short sentences.

Example : Original sentence - My teacher loves to watch a movies during her free time.

                  Paraphrasing - My instructor enjoyed watching a movies during her leisure time.

For retelling method, it is quite hard to master if you do not have a good grammar and vocabulary. This method you need to really comprehend the whole sentences and ideas. After that you retell the whole sentence with your owns. 

For chunking method, it is usually used in long paragraphs where sometimes this paragraph is challenging to comprehend. You may break the long paragraph into several pieces of sentences so that it become much better and easier to paraphrasing. 

I found this topic very interesting because everyday we are dealing with a work and assignment that require us to comes up with an ideas and own word especially students. So, if you master this topic I bet you would not having a problem anymore to do your works. 

Thanks for reading my entry.