This study was aimed to analyze university students’ paraphrasing seen from paraphrase identifications and its strategies. This study used descriptive qualitative approach by doing content analysis. Data were collected from 52 students’ writing of the sixth semester students majoring in English at Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Antasari Banjarmasin in academic year 2020 who enrolled English for Academic Purposes subject through documentation of Introduction section in their brief of thesis proposals. The data were analyzed using Miles and Huberman’s procedures that consists of three main components: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification. The findings of this study indicated that the students considered to use minimal revision as the highest frequency with the percentage 50%, followed by moderate revision with percentage 38%, and the last were near copy and substantial revision with the same percentage 6%. Meanwhile, from ten strategies of paraphrasing that proposed by the researcher showed that only eight strategies in paraphrasing, they are; using synonyms as the highest frequency 87.50%, followed by omitting any unnecessary with 75%, then changing word order with the percentage 25%, next followed by changing parts of speech with the percentage at 18.75%, followed by using varied structure and expanding phrase for clarity with the same percentage at 12.50%. The last followed by separating long sentences and combining sentences with the same percentage at 6.25%. Meanwhile, there were no found changing active to passive and changing positive into negative.