Perhaps paraphrasing is specific to New Zealand? Students are very strongly encouraged here to rewrite everything into "their own words" and they are penalised if they don't (plagiarism detection software has been used for years to detect sentences that were not paraphrased by students).
Direct quotes from other sources should only be used when absolutely necessary. It is best to paraphrase the quote or summarise the ideas when you use other people’s writing.
in your assignment, you need to ensure that there is enough difference in form between the original [words] and your own summarised version. This may be achieved by simplifying the ideas, as well as using a different sentence structure or sentence order to present those ideas.
Students are forced to do it here in NZ. I find it dishonest and pointless. Although generally I'm rather cynical about the value of university education here.
Searching for "paraphrase" comes up with other suggestions which demonstrate that students are searching for tools to do it for them. That isn't a recent development with LLMs.
That's a different issue though and has little to do with plagiarism. Based on skimming those links it doesn't seem that they absolve the student from plagiarism just because they sufficiently reshuffled the words (though again, it makes it harder to detect).
Auckland University https://learningessentials.auckland.ac.nz/writing-effectivel... says:
Massey University https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-and-summa... says: Equivalent examples from all NZ universities: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aac.nz+paraphraseStudents are forced to do it here in NZ. I find it dishonest and pointless. Although generally I'm rather cynical about the value of university education here.
Searching for "paraphrase" comes up with other suggestions which demonstrate that students are searching for tools to do it for them. That isn't a recent development with LLMs.