A graduate student in gender studies
Source text:
Sales of Fairtrade-certified goods grew by 19% to £1.57 billion in 2012, according to statistics released as part of Fair trade Fortnight, which begins today.
Source:
http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2013/02/25/fairtrade-fortnight-sales-growth/
Writer’s text:
In 2012, the fair trade industry surpassed￡1.5 bn, growing at an annual rate of 19% despite worldwide recession3.
Writer’s comment:
So the reason I paraphrase was simply because the [teacher’s] feedback was about quoting too much so I didn’t want to add [use] word by word. I also wanted to shorten the sentence so what I did was took the “1.5bn” which was the key statistic.