Rewriting Text for Essays, Term Papers and Website Content Using Synonyms

Article and essay writers and website developers, need to draft, write and rewrite text and website content on various topics - rapidly and efficiently. There are a broad variety of programs, tools and rewriting services available, both online and offline. These comprise diverse synonym replacement tools - both self-acting replacement devices and others that supply look-up lists for each word. The word-by-word - pick and choose procedures are probably the best, but they are very time-consuming. The rewriting agency services are great, but are very expensive. Using translations to a foreign language and back to English can produce poor and unpredictable results. These translation methods are routinely used by rewriting tools, but the method used is seldom disclosed. Both the self-acting replacement procedures using synonyms and translation methods can be very frustrating and give poor results. The new words and phrases are often inappropriate and create nonsense in the context of the sentence.

A better way is needed. The common way of writing an article or term paper, or to compose text for a website is to get the material from various websites, combine this under various headings and then to rewrite each part in your own words. Essentially you use the ideas and concepts of the reference material, devise new phrases and text as replacements, and add your own concepts, phrases, expressions and words. More comprehensive and smarter substitution devices are required that make better and appropriate replacements. Such devices should have synonyms for 5,000 to 10,000 of the most frequently used words in the English language. Such large numbers of words are required to boost the substitution density. The aim should be to replace about half of the initial words. These words should be carefully chosen for substitution. This means choosing words that can be consistently substituted without altering the meaning of the phases and sentences or producing garbage. Using synonyms will never be flawless, because many English words are used as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc with different meanings. Also many words have a wide range of meanings in various contexts. However, by carefully choosing the words to be included and their synonyms, the performance of the programs can be optimized. Oddly this will mean that many of the commonly used words will have to be omitted because they have too many meanings and uses. Many difficulties arise from words that can be used as both nouns and verbs, with separate meanings, for example: study, care, rate, mark, strike, plan, need, back, walk, rent, loan, award, fight, report, work. Changing these words will be unreliable because the software cannot detect whether to apply the 'noun' or 'verb' version. Software to do this will be too complicated and too slow. Other words have too many meanings and uses to be suitable, for example: treat, last, safe, secure, safe, clash, works, over, fit, able, market, scale, poor, well, fare, fair, part, flexible. Changing these words will be dicey and will often produce meaningless results. Therefore these kinds of words should be omitted to ensure that about 75% of the words restored using synonyms are apt replacements.

The method proposed here is not a 'dumb cheat' instant replacement scheme where you use the method to magically make a rewrite without any further editing. Rather the concept is to use the proposed substitutes as a way of focusing on the text to change into your own words. Once the preliminary substitutions have been made - you then start the editing stage. This means going through the text, rewriting phrases and sentences in your own words. You proceed by accepting or changing the substitutes, adding new phrases and concepts, re-expressing various bits and reordering the phrases and sentences to suit. A properly conceived synonym substitution device is very helpful and effective for doing this editing. You should not expect more than two-thirds of the substitutes to work straight away. Don't try to use the device as an automatic replacement device, but rather use it as a way of highlighting parts of the text you can change into your own words. You will find that this is a simpler and much quicker method than trying to rewrite the source material from scratch. Find a good online synonym replacement tool for your next drafting, writing or rewriting assignment. What is required is a program that has large numbers of carefully chosen, suitable and dependable synonyms.