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Paraphrase Prompt Generator

Paraphrasing is a genuine skill, not just a word-swap: a real paraphrase changes both the wording and the sentence structure while keeping the meaning exact, and it always credits the original author. Getting that right is harder than quoting, which is why patchwriting — swapping a few words while keeping the source's sentence structure — is so common and so often caught. This generator gives you concrete strategies that researchers and writing tutors actually teach. Choose how many strategies you want — up to ten — and it draws from a pool of ten techniques: rewriting from memory with the source closed, restructuring sentences, replacing terms with accurate synonyms, reordering points to fit your argument, explaining the idea to an imaginary classmate, leading with the author, compressing to the core claim, and checking against the original. Students and writers use it to integrate sources without patchwriting, to vary their technique across a paper, and to remember that paraphrasing still requires a citation. Work through a strategy on a tricky passage, then set your version beside the original and check that no three-word phrase was carried over — anything beyond unavoidable technical terms needs reworking.

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