Paraphrasing an Original Passage

James D. Lester wrote that research papers by students are notoriously over quoted. He believes that a tenth of the final paper or less should be direct quotations from authors, but students usually have much more, and this is most likely caused by students relying too much on taking quotes verbatim for use in their scholarly papers. If you are writing a paper, your goal should be paraphrasing the source material and using your own words.(Lester)