QuillBot

QuillBot, from Learneo. Rephrasing a sentence you're stuck on, and checking grammar and citations.

What it does well

• Seeing a clumsy sentence rephrased a few ways, then writing your own
• Summarizing your own notes
• Generating a citation in APA, MLA or Chicago to check against the source

What it does poorly

• Paraphrasing someone else's text to avoid quoting or citing it. That is plagiarism.
• Summaries of readings in place of reading them

What makes it different

A toolbox of small writing utilities (paraphraser, summarizer, grammar checker, citation generator) rather than a chat assistant.

Quick start

1. Paste one of your own sentences into the paraphraser and compare the modes.
2. Rewrite the sentence yourself, using what you learned.
3. Generate a citation for a source and check every field against the original.

Strengths and limits

• Strength: Fast and focused
• Strength: Useful free tier
• Strength: Many language options
• Limit: Easy to misuse for patchwriting
• Limit: Paraphrases can change meaning

Privacy

Avoid pasting unpublished research or anything confidential.

Academic integrity

Paraphrasing a source with a tool is still using the source: cite it. Many instructors treat tool paraphrasing as misconduct.