How to Paraphrase a Text Quickly

Paraphrasing involves expressing another author’s ideas in your own original words. The quickest way to paraphrase the text is to use a paraphrasing service, but if you don’t have the budget for paraphrasing services, this article shows how you can paraphrase a text efficiently and effectively by yourself.

It is worth noting a few preliminaries to begin with:

·         Whenever you paraphrase, you must cite the source

·         If your paraphrasing is overly similar to the original, you may be committing plagiarism

·         Paraphrasing is best used as an alternative to direct quotation

With these preliminaries in mind, the rest of this article is concerned with explaining a quick and foolproof method of paraphrasing, along with important paraphrasing tips to speed up the quality and efficiency of your work.

 

Five-step paraphrasing process

To paraphrase the text quickly, you can follow these steps:

1.      Read through the source text until you have fully grasped its meaning

2.      Make a note of the key concepts and points covered in the source text

3.      Write a new version of the text without looking back at the source text

4.      Compare your paraphrasing to the source text and make any changes needed to reduce the level of similarity

5.      Add a reference to the source that you paraphrased

 

Tips for easy and quick paraphrasing

The five-step paraphrasing process described above is not straightforward to apply in practice. Many students find that paraphrasing, despite seeming easy, is a time-consuming and complex task.

Some tips for easy and quick paraphrasing are presented as follows:

1.      Use as many synonyms as possible

2.      Alter the structure of the sentences in the source text

3.      Separate the information into different sentences

4.      Begin your opening sentence at a different place compared to the source text

To illustrate, consider the following paraphrased passage in which all four of the above-mentioned tips have been applied. The original quotation is:

In The Sopranos, the mob is besieged as much by inner infidelity as it is by the federal government. Early in the series, the greatest threat to Tony's Family is his own biological family. 

The paraphrased version of this quote, which was created by applying the four tips described above, is the following:

In the first season of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano’s mobster activities are more threatened by members of his biological family than by agents of the federal government.

 

Avoiding plagiarism

Many writers believe that paraphrasing is a form of plagiarism.

However, when you paraphrase another author, you can always avoid the risk of plagiarism by ensuring the following:

·         Do not forget to cite the source

·         Use a plagiarism scanner (e.g., Turnitin)

·         Avoid excessive similarity with the source

In short, if you paraphrase a text effectively, you can always avoid plagiarism. As you always, if you don’t have the time to paraphrase your work, consider using a rewriting service or a paraphrasing service.

Why are rewriting services important?

When you “rewrite” (or “paraphrase”) a passage of text, the idea is to put it in your own words without changing the meaning at all. The purpose of a rewritingservice (or paraphrasing service), therefore, is to have the rewriting process completed by an expert who specialises in this specific task. It may sound like no big deal to do this yourself, but rewriting services are one of the most indispensable writing-related services available today. 

It is common to hire a rewriter as a student or an academic when Turnitin, the popular plagiarism-checking software used by universities around the world, returns an excessively high “similarity index”. When you reach the point in your essay-writing or paper-writing process when you are checking Turnitin’s similarity index, you are likely to have already invested a substantial amount of time. Therefore, if you exceed the maximum level of a permitted similarity index, using a rewriting service to solve the problem can save you a further investment of time and effort. 

Rewriting and proofreading services are also important because the task of rewriting a document, especially a complex document, is not as easy as it may seem. To paraphrase the writing of another author requires not only a deep understanding of the material but also careful attention to detail. If you cannot rewrite the text skillfully and attentively, you may convey the wrong idea or change the meaning expressed in the original text. As a result, you would be putting words in another author’s mouth that were never there in the first place. Since this is almost as bad as plagiarism, if not worse, hiring a professional rewriter will enable you to avoid this problem quickly and easily.

If you have never worked with a professional rewriter or paraphraser before, you may not realize how powerful their services are. For example, if your aim is to gain a more in-depth knowledge of something another author has written, you can ask a rewriter to paraphrase the relevant portion of text and, in this way, study both versions. The opportunity to look at the original expression of an idea alongside paraphrased version can give you new insights into the arguments and points being made. As a result, recruiting a professional to rewrite a document helps in many more situations than just avoiding plagiarism.

As this article has demonstrated, rewriting and paraphrasing services, aside from proofreading services, are among the most widely-used writing-related services used by academics and students today. Professional rewriters have mastered an essential set of skills that, if you leverage in your own work, it can help you write competent essays, assignments, and articles, in a more clear, concise manner and possibly even quicker than you currently do.