What is meant by summarising and paraphrasing?
In a summary you shorten a text, identifying just the main points and using your own words. A paraphrase is a restatement in your own words of a short stretch of text conveying all the detail but changing the sentence structure and vocabulary. Summarising and paraphrasing are very useful skills because the process of identifying main points and rephrasing passages helps you to better understand what you are reading.