Rewriting a passage should change how it reads, not what it says or what it cites. Four things about Rewrite are better.

## Rewrite works on passages with citations

Selecting a sentence that contained an inline citation used to hide the Rewrite option entirely, which meant the parts of a manuscript that most need editing were the parts you could not edit. Rewrite now opens on any passage, cited or not.

## Your citations come back as you wrote them

Citations now survive a rewrite untouched, in the style you chose. Previously a rewrite could reformat a citation as it put the passage back, so a citation you wrote one way returned another.

If an alternative does lose a citation, it now says so on that alternative, before you accept it. Only the alternatives actually affected are marked, so you can pick one of the others and move on.

## Humanize keeps the length of what you wrote

Humanize was quietly condensing passages: you asked it to smooth out the cadence and it handed back something shorter, with detail missing. It now holds your passage at its own length, and checks its work before showing you the result. Make concise still shortens, and Expand still lengthens, because that is what you asked them for.

Sentences are also left to run long where the argument needs them to. Varied sentence length is what stops academic prose reading as though a machine paced it, and that only works if some sentences are genuinely long.

## Each alternative now takes a different approach

The three alternatives used to be three attempts at the same idea, and often read almost identically. Each one now takes a deliberately different approach and tells you which: plainer wording, reordered emphasis, or looser rhythm, depending on the mode you picked. They stay in that order, so the one you want is where you left it.

## Elsewhere

When a rewrite cannot be produced, the message now explains what actually happened and what will help, instead of suggesting a shorter selection every time.