Atasoy, ArzuTemizkan, Mehmet2024-09-182024-09-1820231301-00851309-0275https://doi.org/10.9779/pauefd.1112451https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1151494https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/12053This study aims at evaluating Turkish teacher candidates' rewriting skills within the text transformation scope. The research participants included 223 teacher candidates from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of a public university, department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education. The participants were asked to rewrite two texts: Text 1 (weak) and Text 2 (good). Data obtained from students' texts were analyzed. Within this scope, researchers developed two forms to determine the type and level of used rewriting techniques. The researchers developed two different rubrics to assess the quality of rewritten texts and to determine the changes made in terms of lexicon, sentence, and text. According to the results obtained from the present research, Turkish teacher candidates made more changes to Text 1. When students rewrote Text 1, they usually got (1), (2), and (3) points in terms of accuracy, clarity, consistency, and planning; and when they wrote Text 2, they basically got (4) and (5) points. This situation was interpreted in a way that students were mostly faithful to the original texts in the texts they rewrote.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessrevisingparaphraserewritingrewriting strategiestext transformationArticle5730633110.9779/pauefd.11124511151494WOS:000925996900013Q4