11-23-21 | Rewriting Three Paragraphs Regarding COVID19 & The Thanksgiving Holiday
Below is a rewriting test I performed using a news article from npr. I randomly grabbed three paragraphs from an article discussing COVID19 and the Thanksgiving holiday.
Original article in entirety:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/20/1057237292/covid-risk-holidays-booster
Original Excerpt
Here’s one thing to be thankful for this year: It’s not Thanksgiving 2020. A year ago vaccines had not yet been approved, daily deaths were rising sharply — surging to more than 2,000 a day by December — and many Americans hunkered down and skipped holiday celebrations to reduce their risks.
This year, 80% of people 12 and up are now vaccinated with at least one shot, and about half of Americans are planning to gather in groups of 10 or more for the holidays, a recent survey shows.
While many of us are ready to reboot our holiday traditions, COVID cases are once again rapidly climbing — with nearly 95,000 new cases a day. Experts warn we still need to keep COVID risk-reduction in mind. Even if your family is fully vaccinated, remember your most vulnerable family members, particularly people over 80 or the immunocompromised, are still at higher risk of severe COVID.
Rewritten Excerpt
Here’s one thing to be thankful for this year: It’s not Thanksgiving 2020. A year ago, many Americans were not yet vaccinated, but they reduced their risks by celebrating the holidays at home.
This year, 80% of people 12 and up are now vaccinated with at least one shot, and about half of Americans are planning to gather in groups of 10 or more for the holidays, a recent survey shows.
While many of us are ready to reboot our holiday traditions, COVID cases are once again rapidly climbing — with nearly 95,000 new cases a day. Experts warn we still need to keep COVID risk-reduction in mind. Even if your family is fully vaccinated, it’s important never to forget that your most vulnerable family members, particularly those over 80 or the immunocompromised, are still at higher risk of severe COVID.
Takeaways
This rewrite wasn’t the best. Six sentences were proposed for rewrite. Three of those sentences had proposed paraphrases that were not good enough to swap in for the original. The other three sentences had replacements of decent to good quality. That gives us a 50% success rate on the three paragraphs.
I noticed wordbot especially struggled with the sentence Here’s one thing to be thankful for this year: It’s not Thanksgiving 2020. Using the Rewrite a Sentence feature, I tried three times to rewrite this sentence and wordbot failed each time to produce a high quality rewrite.
