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Friday, January 22, 2021

Post 429 Reviewing Quillbot

 Reviewing Quill Bot--A New Way To Generate Alternate Sentences

What is Quill Bot?

You can find Quill Bot at this link: https://quillbot.com/summarize

Quill Bot is an app where you input text into their text box, then press the paraphrase button and Quillbot will paraphrase the sentence for you just like how you input a foreign language into the Google Translate text box, and Google Translate will translate the language into English from another foreign language except Quill Bot does not translate languages, it summarizes, paraphrases sentences you have already written in English into better or other sentences in English.

For instance, I typed in "I want to become a nurse" into their text box, and then Quillbot paraphrased it as "I enjoy becoming a nurse."  I typed in "I want to travel the world." and Quillbot paraphrased "I'd like to see the world". So, Quill Bot does not change your sentence nor does it provide sentence structure variety for your essay. Instead, it acts more like a thesaurus by giving synonyms to words you used in your original sentence. The Quill bot replaced the word 'want' with 'enjoy' in my first sentence and Quill bot placed the words " to travel the world' to "to see the world'. So, if you want minor differences in your wording for your essay, then Quill Bot is for you. Of course, I tried the free version but I don't know if the paid version (Premium) does a better job.

It is still better to learn sentence structure from your English teacher in order to learn how to vary your sentence structure or to paraphrase rather than use Quillbot which only replaces a few words.  Even though Quillbot uses AI (artificial intelligence) to find alternate words for your sentence, it is still best to just buy a Roget's Thesaurus than use Quill Bot. Just learn sentence structure for goodness sake, and you will have a better essay. So, no I do not recommend writers to rely on Quill Bot to have a better sounding essay.

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