well, when paraphrasing you want to change the words up a bit, making them not exact to the authors. Change up the punctuation as well, because if you have he exact same words and same punctuation it would be considered plagiarism, but if you do change up the words and puntuation, you can't get clled for plagirism. re word this.

Paraphrasing involves altering the language and punctuation of a text to avoid plagiarism. By changing the wording and punctuation, one can avoid accusations of copying the original author's work.