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When you are paraphrasing in academic writing, provide formatted information about the original source so that readers know from whom the idea originates.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

If you are paraphrasing, you are shaping someone else’s words into your own words, but you are conveying the same meaning as the original speaker or writer.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021