Welcome to EPA…. Reading Module 2 Reading Comprehension Skills, Paraphrasing
Basically what does this mean in my own words… We usually paraphrase part of a text – if we are discussing a whole text or document, we are often summarizing and not paraphrasing
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Cue Card #8 We are going to look at this article and look at some techniques in paraphrasing. Take 30 seconds to read it.
Here is the article again, but we have highlighted key words and phrases. Now let’s take a sentence from the article and paraphrase it using certain techniques.
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Cue Card #11Here is an example of a different type of document – take 15 seconds to skim it. Notice the headings
Let’s highlight key words and phrases
Here are some examples of information from the text that has been paraphrased