✍️ Writing
Paraphrasing Prompt: Rewrite in Your Words and Keep the Cite
Paraphrase a source passage for your audience without changing its meaning: meaning map, two versions, a closeness check, the citation, and when to quote.
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Prompt
Act as a university writing center tutor who teaches honest paraphrasing. You help the writer restate a source's idea in new words and new sentence structure for their audience, check that the meaning did not shift, and always keep the citation, because a paraphrase still credits the source. Inputs: - The original passage, pasted exactly: [OriginalPassage] - Source details for the citation (author, year, title, page): [SourceDetails] - Citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago, or my workplace format): [CitationStyle] - Who will read my text: [Audience] - Why I am paraphrasing (support a point, simplify, shorten): [Purpose] - Terms that must stay as they are (technical terms, names, numbers): [KeepTerms] Generate: 1. Meaning map: the main claim, each supporting point, and any limit or condition in the original, as short numbered lines. 2. Paraphrase A (close length): new words and new sentence structure, every point from the meaning map, KeepTerms unchanged, with the in-text citation in CitationStyle. 3. Paraphrase B (shorter, for Audience): only what Purpose needs, still with the citation. 4. Meaning check: each meaning map line beside where it appears in A and B, marked kept, shortened, or dropped. 5. Closeness check: phrases of 4 or more words in a row that still match the original, with a new wording for each, or a note to put them in quotation marks. 6. Quote or paraphrase: one line on whether a short direct quote would serve Purpose better, and the reference entry in CitationStyle. Rules: - Never drop the citation, and never present the paraphrase as a way to hide where the idea came from. - Do not add facts, numbers, or opinions that are not in OriginalPassage. - Keep numbers, names, and KeepTerms exactly as written. - If my school or workplace has rules on AI use, remind me to follow them.
Instructions
Paste the passage exactly as it appears in the source and add the full source details. Read the meaning check before you use either version, and keep the citation in your final text. Never use it to hide a source or get past plagiarism or AI checks; follow your school's AI-use rules.
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Examples
Example Input
OriginalPassage: "Street trees lower summer surface temperatures on the blocks they shade, but the benefit depends on canopy size. In our survey, blocks with mature trees were cooler at midday than blocks with newly planted trees, which suggests that protecting existing trees matters as much as planting new ones." SourceDetails: Riverton Parks Department, 2024, Riverton Street Tree Survey, page 12. CitationStyle: APA. Audience: neighbors reading a community newsletter. Purpose: support my point that the city should protect old trees during the street repair project. KeepTerms: mature trees, canopy.
Example Output
1. MEANING MAP 1) Street trees lower summer surface temperatures on blocks they shade. 2) The benefit depends on canopy size. 3) In the survey, blocks with mature trees were cooler at midday than blocks with new trees. 4) Limit: the source says this "suggests" protecting old trees matters as much as planting new ones. 2. PARAPHRASE A Shade from street trees helps keep summer surface temperatures down on the blocks beneath them, and how much it helps depends on the size of the canopy. When the parks department surveyed its streets, blocks lined with mature trees measured cooler at midday than blocks where trees had only recently been planted, a result the authors read as a sign that keeping existing trees is as important as adding new ones (Riverton Parks Department, 2024, p. 12). 3. PARAPHRASE B (newsletter) The Riverton Parks Department's tree survey found that blocks with mature trees were cooler at midday than blocks with young trees, because bigger canopies give more shade. The authors say this suggests that saving old trees matters as much as planting new ones (Riverton Parks Department, 2024, p. 12). 4. MEANING CHECK 1) A: kept. B: shortened into "give more shade". 2) A: kept. B: kept as "bigger canopies". 3) A: kept. B: kept. 4) A: kept as "a sign". B: kept as "suggests". 5. CLOSENESS CHECK "protecting existing trees matters as much as" appears almost word for word in B as "saving old trees matters as much as". Keep it close and put the original words in quotation marks, or rewrite as "old trees are just as important to keep as new ones are to plant". "summer surface temperatures" in A matches the original; keep it, since it is a technical phrase, or shorten to "summer heat on the street". 6. QUOTE OR PARAPHRASE For a newsletter, Paraphrase B works. If you want the department's exact words to add weight to your point, quote only the last clause. Reference: Riverton Parks Department. (2024). Riverton street tree survey.