The author allows me to use their (excellent) idea, but I need to paraphrase it. I can't find a good paraphrase. What should I do?
I meet an excellent idea and really want to use it. The author allows me to do that, but I can't just copy the whole text. The problem is, I do want to use my own language, but in each sentence they have organized keywords in perfect combination, making it much concrete and enlightening, and I really don't know how to put it in another way. It's like a perfect quote or essay from a book that you just can't add or remove any word (or such modification can't be substantial). What should I do?
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Paraphrase it as best you can.
Else just cite it. Permitted as fair use and what the original author wants is irrelevant.
Caveat: If you are talking about using pages of text then that may not be fair use.
If you are talking about a paragraph then that should be okay.
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