A. Presenting someone else's words or ideas as one's own
B. Restating ideas from a source in one's own words
C. Giving credit to the author of a quoted source
D. Combining several ideas into a new idea that explains them all
paraphrasing is expressing the meaning of (the writer or speaker something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity :
"you can either quote or paraphrase literary texts"
