Indian Subcontinent

Instructions: In this activity, you will complete the 8 steps to paraphrasing adapted from Vanier College to paraphrase the given paragraph.
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The triangular peninsula known as the Indian subcontinent contains the modern nations of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. This subcontinent is nearly half the size of the United States. Within it are many landforms and extremes of weather.

Excerpt from: The World and Its People. Parsippany, NJ: Silver Burdett Ginn, 1997. 96-97.

Paraphrasing tool

Paraphrase self-test

 

Type something in as your base text:

Now try to paraphrase that text using your own words:

Now see if you used any overlapping language:

Two different ways of looking at the differences (color-coded):


And a plain-text look:

The original version of this page was written by Chu Alan, working off a Javascript writen by John Resig, using an algorithm for finding the difference between two strings.  See this comment to trace the origins of this code.

This code has been adapted from http://www.coedu.usf.edu/%7Edorn/testdiff.html to test the paraphrase of a particular text.

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