What is the best way to describe paraphrasing? Paraphrasing is not using quotation marks.
Paraphrasing is rewriting ideas in your own words.
Paraphrasing is using someone else's information.

Paraphrasing is rewriting ideas in your own words.

Explanation:

Let's say you have some info right, and you don't want to copy their info exactly so instead of copying it straight out you make it your own words.

the civil rights act was passed on april 9, 1866 by a republican dominated congress. it was passed over president johnson's veto, in an effort to push back against discrimination of african americans.