1. Read the source article or section of the book carefully.
2. Decide what you are going to include, read it carefully and then close the book and/or turn over the article.
3. Write, in your own words, your understanding of that idea, data or theory.
4. Re-read the source and make sure that:
   • you have represented their ideas, data, theories accurately;
   • you have included the whole idea, theory and/or data; and
   • you haven’t copied their sentence structure and/or word usage.
5. Integrate that paraphrase properly into your paper/presentation.

You should never include other's ideas, data or theories unless you know why you are including them.

Proper referencing is critical!

All ideas that you have found in your research and that you have decided to use must be referenced even if you had that thought before you read it in an article.

Why?

• You must reference them in order to give the other author credit. Both of you had the same idea.
• It gives your argument more authority. Other people agree with you.