Answered By: Christina Wright
Last Updated: Sep 24, 2025    Views: 1

Paraphrasing, writing the thoughts and ideas of a published source in your words, is a key skill for incorporating evidence from source material into your work. Good paraphrasing techniques will help you avoid plagiarism.  If you'd like guidance on the techniques used to put information from a source into your own words: 

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