As years went on, educational policies and standards are becoming more rigid for students in relation to their academic writing including assignments, research papers, and thesis.
Students always dread writing assignments that are unique, accurate, and totally relevant to the topic. Though, not every student is equal in skills of writing extraordinary assignments.
Many students look for the shortcuts like a paraphrasing tool to write assignments in much less time with much less effort than manual writing.
Well, it is not wrong to say that a wide percentage of students prefer paraphrasing for assignments and other academic tasks.
Students either do manual paraphrasing or automatic tool-based paraphrasing depending on their priorities and time.
In this article, we will discuss the best ways to paraphrase an assignment that will help students in securing their grades and reputation.
So, stick to reading!
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Guide to Paraphrase Assignments
1. Read the original source to get the complete understanding
You can never take full advantage of paraphrasing until you get a complete understanding of the source material. The only way to understand the source information is to read it until you are ensured of its understanding.
Once you think you have a good understanding of the source material, you can easily break the data into main points, power points, mandatory information, least important data, and irrelevant data.
After organizing the data, you will be able to write it in a healthy way maintaining the central idea and core sense of the text.
If you have to write the assignment in a concise way, you can skip the least important and irrelevant data and just focus on the main points by adding some mandatory information.
2. Decide what can be changed and what can not be changed
When we research material for our assignments we find some facts and figures that we can not change otherwise, our assignment will compromise its worth.
Only a good student can focus and find such material to support his work. A good paraphrasing practice is to find what information can be molded and what should not be changed.
When you determine the material that can be changed you can reword it by making some changes in its syntactical structure and grammatical structure.
Students have good practice in changing sentence structure like converting an active voice sentence into a passive voice, this technique is admirable in effective paraphrasing.
This way, students can paraphrase assignments that do not leave a glance of plagiarism. So, make sure you first determine the information that can be changed and change it the way we explained it here.
3. Use a paraphrasing tool when you lack time and effort
As we discussed before, the paraphrasing tool can also be used as students’ best friend for paraphrasing assignments when they have very less time to submit assignments and they can’t go for manual paraphrasing.
With the use of the paraphrasing tool, students can complete their assignments without any pressure and effort. All students have to do is copy the source text and paste it into the tool and hit the ‘GO’ button.
A paraphrasing tool is specially designed to paraphrase text without any plagiarism in it.
Do you know in educational policies assignments that mark below 15% plagiarism is acceptable and assignments that mark above 25% are considered highly plagiarized?
Therefore, a paraphrasing tool ensures total uniqueness through its AI algorithm.
If you have any doubts, let’s take an example to see if the tool really does paraphrase without plagiarism:
Source Text Vs. Paraphrased Text
From this image, we can easily compare the source text with the tool-based paraphrased text and we can see that some grammatical errors and some unclear sentences are resting in the source text.
The tool paraphrased the source text by removing grammatical mistakes and by rewriting the sentences to make them more clear and more natural sounding.
The red highlighted words as you can see in the right box of the image are those words that the paraphrasing tool replaces to make the content entirely unique.
Some paraphrasing tools also offer plagiarism remover features to double ensure the uniqueness of the paraphrased content.
Here is how it is done:
As you can see in the image, we took the paraphrased content and run it through the ‘Plagiarism Remover’ feature of the paraphrasing tool to remove if there is any plagiarism left while paraphrasing.
The tool again rewrites the paraphrased text to 51%, isn’t it great? Now, just imagine how difficult it would be in manual paraphrasing assignments?
4. Must add citations
In academic writing, citations are highly instructed to prevent academic and legal penalties that occur due to copyright issues.
Many students don’t bother citing sources while paraphrasing as they don’t have practice and don’t know which citation style they should use.
Adding citations in assignments is important to avoid plagiarism because citations refer that the person acknowledging the original author or artist for his/her work.
Students should know when to use APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles and practice them in their assignments whether they are doing manual paraphrasing or automatic tool-based paraphrasing.
5. Proofread the paraphrased material
Last but not least, proofreading is very important in paraphrasing. Proofreading help students find out hidden mistakes in their paraphrased assignments.
Especially when you are doing manual paraphrasing we suggest you always proofread your assignment to find spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes, and other hidden mistakes.
Also, proofreading will tell you whether or not you did justice by maintaining the core meaning of the paraphrased assignment. This way, your assignment will mark high above the entire class and no one can doubt your effort.
Bottom Line
Students always dread writing unique assignments on time therefore, to save themselves from hard work they prefer paraphrasing material to create unique assignments which they can submit on time.
Though, one can never get the full advantage from the paraphrased assignment until he knows how to do paraphrasing properly.
Therefore, to help students we discussed some of the most effective ways towards effective paraphrasing. If you are a student and struggling with your assignments, make sure you read this post.