Restate your thesis without changing its claim.

Paste a thesis you have already written, choose Restate a thesis, and compare the suggested wording with your original. Keep its evidence, conditions and level of certainty intact.

This tool rephrases an existing thesis of up to 200 input words. It does not create an argument from a topic or write a whole conclusion. Sign in to rewrite; a new account has one shared 300-word trial, and a successful request uses the input word count.

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Check the claim before keeping the restatement

Scope

Keep the people, place, period and conditions in your original. A finding from one course must not become a claim about every student.

Certainty

Check words such as may, suggests and if. A possible effect must not become a proven outcome, and an association must not become a cause.

Evidence

Compare numbers and citations against your source. Rewording does not verify a source, remove plagiarism or guarantee an AI-detector result.

Need the rest of a closing paragraph? Conclusion only uses an existing thesis and body points to draft one paragraph; it is a separate writing task. For a worked restatement and source check, read the academic writing guide.

What “restate the thesis” actually asks for

Restating a thesis means saying the same claim in a new formulation. It is not a summary of the essay and it is not a longer version of the same sentence. Most assignments ask for it in a conclusion, where the reader has already seen the evidence: the restatement closes the argument rather than introducing a new one.

The claim has to survive as well as the words: if the restatement argues something else, it is a different thesis, not a restatement of yours. Paste your existing thesis above (up to 200 words), read the suggestion next to the original, and use the scope and certainty checks above before you take it.

A fictional restatement, checked line by line

Original thesis (fictional)

This paper argues that mandatory peer review in first-year seminars improves the quality of student feedback, although the effect is weaker in large classes.

Restatement (fictional)

According to this paper, required peer review raises the quality of feedback in first-year seminars, with a smaller effect where classes are large.

The clause order changed and “mandatory” became “required”. The claim, the scope (first-year seminars, large classes) and the hedge (“argues”, “according to”) stayed the same, so the sentence is still your argument. Nothing here is a real study or result; it is an illustration of what to compare.

Where AI drafts usually drift

A new reason appears. Explanations belong in the introduction; a restatement that adds a because-clause has added an argument.
The certainty is upgraded. Watch for “demonstrates”, “proves” and “clearly” replacing a hedged verb.
The claim becomes a topic. “This paper discusses peer review” describes the essay; it no longer states what you argue.
New evidence is folded in. Any number, finding or quotation that was not in the original thesis is new evidence, and it needs a source in your body paragraphs.

Check a restatement in one pass

Read the original and the suggestion side by side and answer three questions in order: claim, scope, certainty. If all three match, read the sentence aloud once. A restatement is usually shorter than the original thesis, never longer.

When something fails, fix that part only and compare again. A full second rewrite usually solves the length problem by changing the claim, which is the one thing you cannot afford to lose.

How this page works

The editor above takes an existing thesis (up to 200 words), shows the suggested restatement beside it, and lets you compare before copying anything. Sign in to see your remaining words; a new account receives 300 shared word credits once, and submitting a restatement uses its input word count.

This page covers the task and how to judge a suggestion. For the full method, including worked examples of restating a thesis without changing the argument, read step 8 of the academic writing guide; the same guide covers citations and claim checks for the whole document. If you need more words after the trial, compare plans and word allowances. The restatement is a wording aid: you still check the claim, the scope and the certainty against your own draft and your assignment brief.