Read the sample text and paraphrase below. Decide whether the paraphrase meets the requirements of good paraphrasing.
Original text: The paper argues that various ≠Khomani interest groups developed names and labels for themselves by using ethnonyms, glottonyms and self-referents.
Sample paraphrase: The paper argues that the research participants developed names and labels for themselves.
This is still plagiarism, as only a few words/phrases were substituted with synonyms and the sentence structure was kept the same.
This is a good paraphrase because the student has used many synonyms and has shortened the text.
This is a fair paraphrase, but it would have been better if the student just changed the word order.
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This is a fair paraphrase, but it could be improved by using more synonyms and rephrasing the sentence structure further to ensure it is not too close to the original text.
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