Paraphrasing services (also known as “rewriting services”) are among the most popular writing-related services available today. Professional writers in all fields – ranging from medicine to marketing to materials science – are available around the clock to provide high-quality paraphrasing services, which is enabling diverse groups of users (e.g., business people, marketers, and academics) to rollout content with unparalleled quality and speed.
If you are new to the proofreading and paraphrasing space, and if you have never used a writing-related service before, this article will help you to understand the differences between paraphrasing and proofreading. Having explained the main differences, the article will discuss a few different use cases for each service to give you an idea of whether – for your project – you should hire a paraphraser over a proofreader.
The difference between paraphrasing and proofreading
Paraphrasing is the act of expressing a document’s meaning using different words. The document that is to be paraphrased can be any length (e.g., a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter, or even an entire book or article) and it can focus on any topic or field (e.g., a blog post, a press release, or a technical essay). The purpose of a paraphrasing service is to provide high-quality paraphrasing for an affordable price.
In contrast to paraphrasing, proofreading focuses on correcting an existing piece of text rather than transforming it to produce something new. Specifically, a proofreader will catch hard-to-spot mistakes in a document, aiming to revise every spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistake. In certain cases, proofreaders may address structure, style, and tone, but these tasks are usually the purview of editors rather than proofreaders.
Paraphrasing or proofreading?
Having explained the difference between paraphrasing and proofreading in the previous section, you may already have a clear idea about which service you’ll need for your next project.
If not, then let’s consider a few use cases. These will give you an idea of the applications of these two services, hopefully clarifying the one that will best suit the task you have at hand.
First, let’s say that you have plagiarised the work of another author. Specifically, you have copied and pasted excerpts from a Wikipedia article and included them in your journal article. You need to submit your article for peerreview tomorrow morning. Using paraphrasing services for the plagiarised text will enable you to subvert any allegation of plagiarism (i.e., given that, after this service, the plagiarized text will now be expressed using different words).
For the second scenario, consider that you have just finished writing an original work of fiction. You have gone through several stages of drafting, and you are now fully happy with the structure, layout, style, and readability of the document. You want to preserve your authorial voice but you know that the document contains a few errors that you overlooked. At this point, using a proofreading service is the ideal way to proceed.
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