LESSON IX
PARAPHRASING AS AN AID TO
MEMORY
PARAPHRASING is one of the best means of strengthening the memory and building up the mental faculties because of the necessity of thoroughly understanding a subject before it can be paraphrased. It is essential that the thought contained in words should be fully discovered and laid bare before it can be reclothed in one's own language, and this entails on the paraphraser a lot of digging for the thought, a concentration of the thinking powers, and close attention to the matter to be paraphrased in order that all the essential points may be seen and reproduced. After the subject has been
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