 So when you cite that's there's a couple different places where you might be doing this and for APA style There's a couple different Criteria you might be looking at so if you're paraphrasing a source That's going to be one time when you're going to want to do that quoting a source word for word is going to be another And using ideas from another source Now paraphrasing is it's not taking the original sentences and kind of rearranging them and changing a few words That that's not the way that you would want to be doing that instead paraphrasing really is a restatement of the original sources ideas in your own words And so paraphrasing can sometimes look more concise than the original source that you're getting it from Or it might be more lengthy Just kind of depends on how you're engaging with that within the narrative of your own writing So there are different ways that you could be doing that Now using the others ideas and research this really applies to facts data Ideas theories and inspiration from other sources to support inform and illustrate your claims So there's all sorts of different Types of approaches that may be taken with things It's particularly big with things like theories and ways of understanding things or or or the Inspiration for why you're looking into what you're looking into that might be part of the context as well