What are Paraphrase and Summary? Paraphrase is to express someone else's ideas in your own language. You must completely alter the sentence structure that makes your paraphrase more clearly and easy to readers. To write paraphrase, first thing you have to do is find out the basic point of the original passage, without copying the passage verbatim, you have to use your own word to tell the meaning of the ideas in sentence. A good paraphrase is you have to let your readers know where is your ideas come from, so you must provide a reference. The two reasons to tell the readers where's the ideas from, one is showing the respect to the original author, and the other is it can also strengthens the passage by clarifying the source of its fact and ideas. Above all, I think paraphrase is completely surrounding on three rules: (1)basic point (2)own words (3)provide a reference. What is summary? If paraphrase is point-to-point, I think summary is all in one. Summary is that you have to absorb the meaning of the original passage then to capture in your own words the most important elements from the original passage. A summary is shorter than paraphrase, and it is not only express someone else's ideas, but to distill only the most essential points. Please help me to correct the grammar mistakes or help me add more opinions that can perfect the passage. Thanks a lot!