Strategies for Paraphrase
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Use synonyms
Change sentence type
Change clauses to phrases / phrases to clauses
Change voice (active‐passive)
Change parts of speech
A good paraphrase usually combines a variety of strategies.
1. Studies of students’ goals for a college education show that many students are more
interested in financial benefits and job training than they are in broadly expanding
their knowledge.
2. As society becomes more pluralistic and multicultural, it becomes increasingly
difficult to understand in advance what a building will mean to the people who will
be using it.
3. While the overall crime in the United States has plummeted in recent years, the
number of mass murders, especially the news‐friendly massacres in schools,
churches and offices that have become so familiar, has skyrocketed.