When you paraphrase, you

A. are documenting someone's exact words.

B. are using someone's exact words.

C. are putting someone else's idea into your own words.

D. are analyzing someone's idea.

C

Explanation:

Paraphrase is meant to clarify any piece of writing by an author whose words and sentences are simplified by using different words. in paraphrase, specific words are made simple by writing them in easy words so that general readers could understand, or deciphering the inherent meaning by using simple words since authors do use difficult words to enhance the beauty of the text. How authors do write a poem or prose is different from how readers understand, for example, Milton's Paradise Lost is a sublime text which needs paraphrasing or Chaucer's The Canterbury's Tales, which is composed in the Middle Age English which is Greek to students if not paraphrased.