AI Paraphrasing Tool for History Class

History class writing requires students to integrate both primary sources (speeches, letters, government documents) and secondary sources (historians' arguments and scholarly analyses. Primary sources are often written in archaic or formal language that students struggle to paraphrase accurately. Secondary sources present dense historiographical arguments that must be represented precisely. Omar is preparing a DBQ essay for AP US History using six documents from the early 20th century. He uses the paraphrasing tool to modernize three archaic-language documents into readable modern English before writing about them, and to restate the secondary source argument he is using as context) then focuses his effort on the analysis that connects his documents to his thesis.