Free AI Essay Rewriter

Rewrite your own essay draft section by section, with citations, figures and quoted material left exactly as you wrote them.

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AI essay rewriter

When you need an essay rewriter

This is a tool for rewriting your own draft: the paragraph you have rewritten four times and still cannot make read properly, the section where every sentence starts the same way, the conclusion that says what the introduction already said. It rewords what you wrote. It does not research, argue or think for you, and the next section is about the line you should not cross with it.

How to rewrite an essay

Three steps, and the third is the one people skip.

Paste it

Work one section at a time — an introduction, a body paragraph, a conclusion. Whole essays in one paste are harder to check and easier to lose control of.

Set it up

Freeze quotations and technical terms first, keep Protect names & numbers on, and leave the slider on Balanced.

Read what changed

Read the highlights against your original with the citations and the numbers in mind, then check spelling and units: British spellings can come back American.

Before and after, unedited

A real run of this rewriter, printed exactly as it came back, so you can judge it on what it actually returned.

Your text99 words

Urban green space is frequently discussed as an amenity rather than as infrastructure. Fisher (2019) argues that this framing is the reason park budgets are the first to be cut in a downturn, even though the same parks are doing measurable work: in the study's sample of eleven cities, tree cover reduced peak summer surface temperatures by up to 4 degrees Celsius, and neighbourhoods in the lowest quartile for canopy cover recorded 62% more heat-related emergency calls. Treating canopy as a heat-management asset, rather than as decoration, changes both who pays for it and how its value is counted.

Standard mode97 words

Urban green space is often viewed as a convenience rather than as essential infrastructure. Fisher (2019) contends that this perception leads to park budgets being the first to be reduced during economic downturns, despite the tangible benefits these parks provide: in a sample of eleven cities, tree cover lowered peak summer surface temperatures by as much as 4 °C, and neighborhoods in the lowest quartile of canopy coverage experienced 62 % more heat‑related emergency calls. Recognizing canopy as a heat‑management resource instead of mere ornamentation alters both the funding sources and the way its value is measured.

99 words in, 97 out. "Fisher (2019)" and both figures survived; the units and the spelling did not come through untouched, which is exactly what the highlights are for. Generated by this rewriter on 19 September 2026 in Standard mode at Balanced strength with Protect names & numbers on, printed here unedited.

What an essay rewrite has to get right

Three things, using the words from the example above.

Citations to come through untouchedIn the recorded run, "Fisher (2019)" appears in the output exactly as it appears in the input. Protect names & numbers is what does that, and it is on by default.
Figures to stay the figures4 and 62 both survived. Their formatting did not: "4 degrees Celsius" came back as "4 °C" and "62%" as "62 %". Check units and symbols after a run — the value is protected, the typography is not.
A register that does not driftStandard mode keeps academic prose academic. If your draft is too informal for the assignment, switch to Formal; if it is impenetrable, Simple is the honest fix.

What it leaves alone

A rewrite is judged by what it does not touch.

Your quotations, if you freeze themA direct quotation must not be paraphrased — that turns a quote into a misquote. Select the quoted words and freeze them before you run it, and they will survive every pass.
Your argumentThe rewriter changes sentences. It will not notice that your second paragraph contradicts your fourth, and it will not tell you that a claim needs a source.
Your references listRewrite the body, not the bibliography. A reference is a fixed form; reworded, it stops pointing at the work.

Rewriting your own words is not the same as rewriting someone else's

Where the line isPutting a source through a rewriter and handing the result in is plagiarism, whatever the wording looks like afterwards. It is the idea and the structure that are borrowed, and changing the words does not make them yours — it only makes the borrowing harder to see, which is worse, not better. Cite the source and quote it where it matters. Our <a href="/academic-integrity.html">academic integrity page sets out where we stand, and it applies to this page in full.

Common mistakes with an essay rewriter

6 ways this goes wrong, and what the highlights show you in each case.

Running someone else's essay through it

Covered above, and worth repeating: this is plagiarism and no setting changes that.

Paraphrasing a direct quotation

If it was in quotation marks, it must survive word for word. Freeze it, or take it out before the run and put it back after.

Trusting the figures because the numbers are right

The values were preserved in our run and the units were reformatted. "62 %" with a space is not how most style guides want it written.

Rewriting to hide a thin argument

A better-worded paragraph with no evidence in it is still a paragraph with no evidence in it, and that is what gets marked down.

Losing your own voice across a whole essay

Rewrite the parts that are not working. An essay that has been passed through any tool end to end reads flat, and markers notice flat.

Assuming a rewrite defeats an AI detector

It does not reliably, and writing to beat a detector is a different project from writing a good essay. If you want to know how your draft reads, our <a href="/ai-detector.html">AI detector will tell you.

Essay Rewriter FAQs

Is it acceptable to use an essay rewriter at all?

On your own writing, generally yes — it is the same category of help as a thesaurus or a writing centre. On someone else's writing, no. Your institution's rules are the ones that count, and many now ask you to declare what tools you used; check them before you use anything.

Will my citations survive?

Yes, with Protect names & numbers on. "Fisher (2019)" came through intact in the run printed on this page. Check the result anyway — it costs ten seconds.

Can it rewrite my whole essay in one go?

Only within the per-request word allowance, and it is a bad idea even when it fits. Section by section is easier to check and produces a better essay.

Does the rewriter keep British spelling?

Not always. "Neighbourhoods" became "neighborhoods" in our run with the language on Auto. Set the language explicitly and proofread the result.

Is my essay stored anywhere?

No. The text is processed and discarded; we keep a word count for your allowance and nothing else. Nothing you paste is used for training.

Will the essay rewriter change names, numbers or dates?

Not unless you switch Protect names & numbers off. It is on by default, so a figure, a date, a citation or an organisation stays exactly as written while the sentence is rebuilt around it. You can also click any word and freeze it so it survives every run.

Can I see what the essay rewriter changed?

Yes. The result comes back with every changed word highlighted against your original, and you can switch to the original at any time to compare. Click a highlighted word for alternatives, edit the result in place, or step back to an earlier version.

After the rewrite

Check the grammar of the result, shift its register with the tone changer, or compare the two versions side by side. One plan covers every tool.

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AI rewriter pages for every kind of writing

Pick the page that matches what you are rewriting — a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, an article or a blog post — or the one that matches how far you want the text moved. Every page runs this same rewriter, shows a real before-and-after it produced, and explains what it changes and what it leaves alone. Standard is the default everywhere in this family; Fluency, Formal, Simple, Shorten and Expand are free too, and Academic, Creative and Custom are part of Pro. The AI paraphrasing tool is the same rewriter under its other name.

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How far to move it

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