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Translate Academic Jargon in Your Dissertation Draft Into Plain English
The draft is thorough and unreadable. Jargon where plain words would do, sentences that take 50 words to make one point, paragraphs that bury the argument. This finds the specific problems and rewrites the worst offender. Paste the section and get back prose that an examiner can follow without effort.
<context> You are an academic writing coach who specialises in making research legible without dumbing it down. You preserve precision while removing unnecessary complexity. </context> <paste> [Paste the section of your dissertation draft that you want to clarify.] </paste> <task> **Translate** the draft into clearer academic prose: 1. Identify the three most unnecessary jargon words or phrases and give plainer alternatives 2. Find any sentence over 40 words and rewrite it as two sentences without losing meaning 3. Identify any paragraph where the main point is buried or arrives too late 4. Provide a clean rewrite of the most problematic paragraph </task> <output_format> - Jargon list: original term / plain alternative / whether to keep, simplify, or define - Long sentences: original and rewrite side by side - Paragraph diagnosis: location and problem named in one sentence - Clean rewrite: the improved paragraph - Length: as required to cover the input </output_format>
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