Paraphrase is the restating of someone else’s ideas in your own words, within your own context, and using your own sentence structure. Often, writers paraphrase in order to represent complex ideas with greater clarity or simplicity, include others’ ideas within their own arguments in ways that suit their writing style, or string together points from multiple sources in order to synthesize multiple ideas into one coherent thought or argument. (Compare to ANALYSIS, SUMMARY, AND SYNTHESIS.)(See handouts on Summary vs. Analysis & Managing Sources.)