Paraphrasing Tool

How to use the paraphrasing tool

Paste a sentence, paragraph or short section into the box, pick a mode, and press the button. The rewritten version appears in the output pane with a copy button. If the first result is not quite right, run it again: the model is not deterministic, so a second pass usually gives a noticeably different phrasing.

Each request accepts about 1,000 words and the free quota is 5 conversions per day, so paraphrase the parts you actually need to change rather than a whole document. Your text is processed in memory and returned; nothing is saved on our side.

The five modes

Start with Standard. Switch to Fluent if your own draft reads clumsily; switch to Simple if a reader has told you the text is hard to follow.

Worked example

Original, from a student’s draft:

The implementation of the new attendance policy was met with resistance from a large number of students, many of whom felt that it did not take into account the difficulties faced by those who commute long distances.

Standard mode:

Many students pushed back against the new attendance policy, arguing that it ignored the problems faced by those with long commutes.

Simple mode:

A lot of students did not like the new attendance rule. They said it was unfair to people who travel a long way to college.

Academic mode:

The introduction of the revised attendance policy prompted considerable opposition among students, who contended that it failed to account for the constraints experienced by long-distance commuters.

What stays fixed in all three: the policy, the resistance and the reason. What changes: structure, vocabulary and length.

When to use it, and when not to

Use it when you have written something correct but repetitive, when a sentence keeps tripping you up and you cannot see why, or when you need the same point for a different audience (a Simple version for a customer, an Academic version for a report).

Do not use it to disguise copied material. Rewording a source without a citation is still plagiarism at every university and most workplaces, and tutors are good at spotting it. If the idea is someone else’s, cite them, then paraphrase to fit your argument. Never run quotations through it: a quotation must be exact or it stops being one.

Tips

• Paraphrase one paragraph at a time. Shorter inputs give tighter, more accurate rewrites.
• Keep names, figures and technical terms in the input; the model is told to preserve them, and in a short passage you can check that quickly.
• If a rewrite drifts too far, use Standard rather than Creative and try again.
• Run the result through the AI Writing Pattern Checker on this site if the reader dislikes AI-sounding prose.

Limitations

Wording carries nuance. “The results suggest” and “the results show” are not the same claim; “may” and “will” are not the same promise. Always re-read the output against the original before you use it, especially for legal, medical, financial or academic text. The tool cannot check facts, so a wrong statement in the input comes out just as wrong, only phrased differently. Idioms occasionally get flattened, and very short inputs may come back almost unchanged because there is little to rework.

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