という風に means "in such a way", "along the lines of": the clause or quote before it spells out how something is done, said or thought. It follows a plain-form sentence, a quote or a noun, and the verb it describes comes after it. 風 here is read ふう, and the phrase is often written in kana, というふうに.
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You make it like this: first you cut the ingredients, then you stir-fry them.
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She acted as if she knew nothing.
きごう「きごう」。
He sighed as if to say, "It's all over."
Reporting what someone said or thought
With , or , という風に gives the gist of the words or the thought rather than a word-for-word quote. In speech it sounds softer than a bare と.
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The teacher said something along the lines of next week being off.
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He didn't see it as his own fault.
という風に or ように
compares: "the way X does". という風に describes: it states the manner itself. After a quote or a sequence of steps, という風に is the natural choice.
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Please do it the way the teacher said.
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I went round the big cities – Tokyo, then Osaka, then Nagoya.
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point at a manner already shown; という風に is the version that spells it out. In casual speech it shortens to
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