Rewritten
Digital communication technology has changed how people talk to each other. Instead of talking in real time and in person, people now often communicate through text messages sent at different times. This shift may affect how people develop social skills.
About this tool
Academic writing often piles clause on clause until a single sentence takes three reads to parse, which is a problem whether you're a student trying to understand a source or trying to make your own writing more accessible. This tool breaks a dense paragraph into shorter sentences and swaps in simpler vocabulary, without dropping any of the original content or nuance. Use it on your own drafts to improve readability, or on a confusing source paragraph you're trying to understand before you cite it — it's a companion to academic-text-to-plain-english, but focused specifically on paragraph-level sentence structure rather than full jargon translation.
Frequently asked questions
Will simplifying lose important academic nuance?+
The tool is instructed to preserve key details and meaning, but very dense passages sometimes carry nuance in their precise wording — compare the simplified version against the original if the paragraph is central to your argument.
Is this meant to help me write or to help me read a source?+
Both — students use it to simplify their own overly dense drafts, and also to make confusing source material easier to understand before summarizing or citing it.
How is this different from the plain-English tool?+
This tool focuses on sentence length and vocabulary within a paragraph; the plain-English tool is broader and also strips out jargon and technical terminology.