The art of Paraphrasing is a tough job to accomplish. It is not just about using synonyms to replace words and changing the arrangement of texts; if it was, we all would just consult a dictionary and replace all words with their synonyms. This is however not advisable because in doing so, the sentence can loseits meaning. In paraphrasing, the original meaning of the text is most important. You can’t afford to paraphrase into a text that means something entirely different from the article you are consulting. This can easily happen when you paraphrase yourself without the aid of a tool. In fact, you may not notice that you have made a mistake by changing the content. But when you or someone else reads through it, all mistakes usually come to light. Fortunately, most paraphrasing tools do not have this sort of problem. 

In academic research writing, you are expected to be professional when writing, expected to use proper academic phrases, correct citations and avoid all forms of plagiarism. However, this may be difficult for one to achieve manually and may take a longer period of time. 

Paraphrasing tools are the best at what they do. They rewrite the content of a research paper you are consulting in words that a reader would be able to understand while retaining the original meaning of the paper. 

I have no doubt that some writers might settle for using direct quotes to lift an idea from a former work and adding in-text citations by the side. While this method may be the easiest way out, it doesn’t earn the writer any points. In fact, repeating the use of quotations throughout your academic writing; even in cases where you may add citations, reduces the quality of academic research work. It also makes the work look unstructured and unprofessional.

In the earlier days of the use of paraphrasing tools, there were limitations to what they could do and as such, were only used as word or text spinners. However, in recent times, paraphrasing tools have evolved beyond that. They are now used in checking for plagiarism, grammar correction and scientific word suggestions. This evolution has made it possible to be used as a very important tool in academic research writing. Thus, easing the stress researchers go through, adding structure to the body of academic work and saving time.

In this blog, we review the ways in which paraphrasing tools can help your academic research project.

1. Rewording tool: This is particularly useful to people who find it difficult to find word replacements or rewrite texts by themselves. Paraphrasing tools possess a rewording option that allows you to use a synonym to replace a word or an entire text. This is made possible because most paraphrasing tools have a library of synonyms at their back end where these word replacements are stored. Paraphrasing tools do not just replace words with synonyms, they also help you craft an un-plagiarized content for your research project by rewriting sentences and paragraphs while ensuring that the original meaning of these sentences and paragraphs is retained. This tool understands your need to remain original while passing across information that would be easily understood by your readers. Therefore, most paraphrasing tools have a blend of Artificial intelligence and human-level proficiency in order to generate content that is unique yet digestible. 

2. Scientific word suggestions: In writing academic research papers, it is very important that scientific words are used. This goes a long way to show the readers that you did your research right and the information you are passing across has scientific backings. Using scientific words or terms also adds structure to your academic research work. Paraphrasing tools offer its users scientific word replacement suggestions by finding replacement words used in previous scientific documents of high-quality. For example, using the word ‘done’ in an academic research paper might seem a little too informal. A paraphrasing tool would replace ‘done’ with a more appropriate scientific term such as ‘conducted’, or ‘performed’. This is a more formal and preferable word when writing a research project.

3. Searching reference material: An important part of academic writing is referencing. This helps the researcher to avoid plagiarism and remain original. Referencing an academic writing helps to improve the quality of work and shows the readers that you have done a thorough investigation into your field of study. It also shows that you acknowledge the investigations that were previously done by other researchers in your field of study and therefore consulted their works. One very important quality of paraphrasing tools to academic writing is its ability to cross reference previous papers on your research project. This allows you to check for similarity in texts, paragraphs and sentences and thus, enables you deal with any plagiarism issue.

4. Academic phrase library: Most paraphrasing tools possess an academic phrase library. This library has a good number of academic phrase templates. The function of this library is to display sections or structures that correspond with the basic outline of a research paper. These sections go from introduction, through literature review until it gets to conclusion. Some of these sections have multiple categories and subcategories. Now, how does this help in academic writing? These sections serve as a guide to the research writer enabling him to display the sections that should be included while writing a research paper. This helps the academic writing take on a Nobel structure which makes it more understandable no matter where it is presented. Again, the phrase bank also guides the writer on the type of phrases that should be included in every section, category and subcategory of the research paper.

5. Plagiarism checker: Most paraphrasing tools have evolved from just spinning words and sentences to having the ability to check for plagiarism. The plagiarism checker allows the research writer to check for duplicate copies of his writing before putting it in the public. The good thing about this option is that one can correct any sentence or paragraph that the checker has discovered plagiarism before final submission. This will eliminate any threat (authors of journals or articles in the same field) that may come at you and your research for duplicating their copy. This maintains the originality of the research project and keeps the researcher’s integrity out of harm’s way.

The use of paraphrasing tools in writing an academic research project cannot be overemphasized. Paraphrasing tools function in academic research projects to simplify the writer's work, eliminate writer’s block, save time and energy. 

In need of an academic research project worthy of Nobel recognition, use a paraphrasing tool today and you would be glad you did.