Paraphrasing a ¶:

How-to:

· Go sentence by sentence (unlike summarizing, wherein you just state the main idea).

· Restate the author’s ideas in your own words.

· Use your own sentence structure; you can combine 2+ of the author’s sentences into one sentence.

· If you borrow language, put it in quotes!

(three word rule; striking language rule)

· Cite author & page at the end of the paraphrase

Ex: The fifth ¶ of “Here’s Looking at You,” 56

Reader of ¶ 5 please! All else, listen & read the sample.

Paraphrase of paragraph 5:

Research has shown that people make assumptions about others in terms of characteristics and/or livelihood based on their physiques. In one University of Colorado study, faculty showed undergraduates pictures of people and had the students attribute characteristics to the people shown in the images. One group of students was shown people who were thin or of average size. This group attributed positive attributes to the people in the pictures. When the faculty altered the images so as to make the exact same people look larger, new test subjects presumed that those in the pictures had characteristics that were far more negative than did the students who had seen the thinner pictures of the same people. Apparently, this propensity to equate physique with other non-physical traits is shared by both men and women and begins to develop when they are quite young, as is also the case with “racial and gender stereotypes.” (Rispin 56-57)