Paraphrase means formulating someone's ideas into other ideas using your own words. To paraphrase a source, a paragraph must be rewritten without changing the context of the original text. Paraphrasing is an alternative to quoting, in which you take the exact words of others and place them into quotation marks. In academic literature, paraphrasing is generally better than quoting, as it implies you have interpreted the source and makes your work more original. Here are some websites that will help you to develop your writing skills by paraphrasing both of the words and sentences

1. Thesaurus

Thesaurus is one of paraphrasing dictionary that will help you to find the synonym of the words that you search for. Thesaurus.com launched since 1995, this site provides the user with more than 550.000 synonyms and suite resources that simplify writing. Thesaurus over 160 years help everyone to find the ideal word easily.

2. Quillbot

QuillBot was created for students and professionals as a full-sentence thesaurus for creative writing. QuillBot has also been found helpful by ESL users to fine-tune their language and introduce new vocabulary. In other words, this web is helping us to make the sentences paraphrasing, not the words paraphrasing anymore. Quillbot also gives several modes for the paraphrasing, there are standard, fluency, creative, suggestive, concision. If you are the free user of Quillbot you can only use the standard mode, because the other four modes are premium so you have to upgrade your account and pay for it. In my opinion, using the standard mode is enough, besides that, you can adjust the word that you think it’s more suitable.