Students' Perception on Paraphrasing

Abstract

This study also discovered the difficulties faced by the students in paraphrasing. The study concluded that most of the students practiced paraphrasing during their study. Although the skill of paraphrasing is taught almost every semester, students had different perceptions towards paraphrasing. Higher proportion of the students used paraphrasing only sometimes during their entire learning activities. Students used textbooks, magazine, other books and other materials Journal, Newspaper, Booklets, etc.) for the purpose of paraphrasing practices. The study concluded that the most difficult task was changing sentence structure while paraphrasing. It helped to control the temptation, to grasp the full meaning of the original and understand the original. Students seem unaware to find differences in quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Higher number of students changed the word while paraphrasing. More than half of the total students used sentence level of paraphrasing. Students take notes in their own words, acknowledge quotations, even in own notes and use ideas of other people, be explicit about it to avoid paraphrasing.