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: In the paper, it is claimed that ethnonyms, glottonyms and self-referential expressions were used by different ≠Khomani advocacy groups to create designations and terms 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 changed the word order.


This is a bad paraphrase because it has changed the original meaning of the text.

1 answer

This is a good paraphrase because the student has used many synonyms and has changed the word order.