Paraphrasing means restating a text in your own words while maintaining the original meaning. It involves reading a passage carefully, understanding its meaning, and then expressing the ideas using different words without changing the overall message. Paraphrasing helps ensure comprehension and is useful for checking understanding, while summarizing focuses on concisely conveying only the most important ideas in fewer words than the original.

1. What is Paraphrasing?

2. Paraphrasing
• Paraphrasing means putting what you have read into
your own words.
• You paraphrase by reading something, thinking about
what it means, and then restating it in your own words.
• Paraphrasing is a useful strategy to check to be sure
that you have understood when reading something
difficult or something that is important to remember.
• If you cannot paraphrase after reading, it is important
to go back and reread to clarify information.

3. What is the difference between
paraphrasing and summarizing?
• Re-writing
another writer’s • Re-writing only
words or ideas •Writing tools the main idea in
without changing •Use ideas of others your own words.
the meaning. •Provide support •Length is always
•Length stays the shorter.
same.