# Rephrase and Respond

> Rephrase and Respond (RaR) asks the model to rephrase and expand the user's question in its own words before answering, reducing misunderstandings caused by ambiguous phrasing.

- Identifier: PTL-0041
- Category: Reasoning Elicitation
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/rephrase-and-respond/
- Also known as: RaR
- Introduced: 2023

## Description

The rephrasing can be done in the same response or by one model for another, as a two-step variant.

## Related terms

- [System 2 Attention](https://protologue.com/t/system-2-attention/)

## Sources

- Deng et al. (2023). Rephrase and Respond: Let Large Language Models Ask Better Questions for Themselves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04205

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Rephrase and Respond. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0041). https://protologue.com/t/rephrase-and-respond/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)