how to paraphrase

I am doing an access to midwifery course and it asks this question.

You are required to write two examples of each of the following using the text in the article provided (see assessor guidance section below to download the article).
• Paraphrase
• Quotation

You must ensure that the meaning of the original text is conveyed/summarised when paraphrasing. Quotation examples must be presented in the appropriate manner.

Anyone have any suggestions how to do this, its been a long time since i have been in education and im not sure what I am being asked to do here.

Paraphrasing is literally just taking the text and saying it in a different way. The meaning should be the same - you shouldn't remove or add anything. It's useful sometimes to make bullet points of the key points so that you can then put them into your own words.

what does it mean by quotation?

A quotation is an exact copy of a small snippet of the text.

so for the quotation, i take a pragraph and copy it , then re-write it in my own words, then use a small snipet of it and write it exactly the same as the text, is that write ?

did you manage to figure this out? currently stuck on the same thing

A quotation is an exact copy of a small snippet of the text.

do you need to paraphrase before you do the quotation and say:
according to Mohan R (2012), he believes "........................."

If you’ve paraphrased it and referenced appropriately why would you then quote something?

its usually much better in nursing assignments to paraphrase rather than directly quote. It shows you’ve read something, understood it and been able to put it in your own words.

so with quotation, do i just say
Mohan R believes ".........."

Something that is like the author is trying to say and the quote?

If you are putting it into your own words you do not need to use quotations.

For example, if I had written in an article: "Never eat yellow snow" - this would be the direct quotation.

You could paraphrase this: Moonkatt (2022), suggests that yellow snow should not be eaten. - you don't need to put this in quotation marks, its in your own words but you need to credit the initial author (me in this fictitious example) using whichever referencing style your university says you should use.

oh
I literally copied and pasted the text and added quotation marks and put (Mohan, R.2012) in the end
Did I do it wrong then?

That’s not wrong, but all you’ve done is quoted rather than paraphrased.