Whilst both are perhaps technically "plagiarism in your own words", there's a difference in trying to convey the same information in a sentence or two you've re

Whilst both are perhaps technically "plagiarism in your own words", there's a difference in trying to convey the same information in a sentence or two you've read in a text book into your own words for an essay, than rephrasing paragraphs/pages/story lines from a novel or entire sections of a previous work. The process should be: 1) read 2) summarise into bullet points 3) write in your own words. Not 1) copy paste entire paragraph 2) rephrase/reorder to "make it yours"