Writing with AI
Why Does My Writing Sound Like AI?
Learn why your writing sounds like AI and how to revise generic phrasing while keeping your voice, facts and professional tone.
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Short pieces from the people who build the tools: how a reading comes about, what it can and cannot tell you, and what we changed and why.
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AI detection
How to Prove You Didn't Use AI: Wrongly Flagged? Show Your Process
Preserve your submission, connect drafts to source notes, and request a fair review when your writing is wrongly flagged for AI.
Paraphrasing
Is Paraphrasing Plagiarism? Paraphrasing vs. Word for Word Plagiarism
See why a citation does not fix close copying, and compare legitimate paraphrasing, patchwriting, and quotation using the same source passage.
Word count
How Long Does It Take to Read 1000 Words?
Estimate how long 1000 words take to read silently or aloud, with task-specific benchmarks and a practical test of your own pace.
AI detection
What Percentage of AI Is Acceptable? There Is No One Number
There’s no universal acceptable AI percentage: check the applicable policy, understand the reading, and use your writing record to resolve a flag.
Summarizing
Difference Between Paraphrasing and Summarizing: True or False Quiz and Clear Examples
Compare a paraphrase and summary of the same passage, then choose the method that preserves the information your reader needs.
AI detection
Does Canvas Have AI Detection? What Teachers Can See
Canvas AI checks come from connected services, with coverage and teacher access determined by your institution's setup.
Writing with AI
ChatGPT Grammar Checker: Can You Use AI to Proofread?
Use a grammar-only prompt, compare targeted corrections with chat editing, and keep your meaning and voice intact.
Citation
How to Cite a Paraphrase in APA and MLA: What to Do if I Paraphrase a Paragraph
See how APA and MLA handle paraphrase citations, page numbers, paragraph attribution, and matching full source entries.
Citation
How to Cite ChatGPT in APA and MLA
Use current APA and MLA guidance to cite ChatGPT, match in-text citations, explain AI assistance, and verify original evidence.
Grammar
Semicolon vs Colon: When to Use Each Punctuation Mark
Choose between a semicolon and a colon with matched examples, clear sentence tests, and practical punctuation repairs.
AI detection
Signs of AI Writing: Red Flags and Practical Examples
Recognize AI-like writing patterns, revise stock phrasing, and combine specific passage feedback with a detector reading.
Paraphrasing
How to Paraphrase in 5 Steps Without Changing the Meaning
Learn to paraphrase through independent drafting, a worked example, careful meaning checks, and clear source attribution.
Writing with AI
How to Humanize AI Text: Edit a Draft Into Your Voice
Turn a stiff AI draft into your own voice with practical checks for specificity, rhythm and accurate meaning.
Grammar
Subject Verb Agreement: Rules, Examples, and Practice
Learn subject-verb agreement with clear rules, corrected examples, and a practice worksheet with a separate answer key.
Grammar
What Is a Run-On Sentence? How to Fix One, With Run-On Sentence Examples and Answers
Find the real cause of a run-on sentence and choose a correction that keeps your meaning intact.
AI detection
Are AI Detectors Accurate? How to Interpret a Result
Learn what detector accuracy measures, what a 20% reading can mean, and how to review a flagged essay.
AI detection
Is Grammarly's AI Detector Accurate?
Understand Grammarly's reported AI detector accuracy, interpret its document scores, and compare readings without changing your draft between checks.
Summarizing
What Does Summarize Mean? Definition and Examples of How to Do It
Learn what summarize means through practical examples of a text, a story, and an email, plus a clear comparison with paraphrases and abstracts.
Paraphrasing
Quoting and Paraphrasing Examples, With Summarizing Examples
See the same passage quoted, paraphrased, and summarized, with practical advice on choosing a method and citing it correctly.
Grammar
Examples of Active Voice vs Passive Voice
Learn to recognize active and passive voice, compare sentence pairs, and choose the wording that keeps your meaning clear.
AI detection
What AI Detectors Do Colleges Use? What Professors See
Find out how colleges use Turnitin, what professors see in AI-writing reports, and why admissions rules need a separate check.
Writing with AI
Is Grammarly AI? What Counts as AI Writing
Grammarly uses AI, but correcting errors, rewriting passages, and generating drafts are different activities under assignment rules.
Summarizing
How to Write a Summary, With a Template
Use a reusable summary template and an annotated example to keep the main point, cut unnecessary detail, and preserve the source’s meaning.
AI detection
How Does an AI Detector Work, and What Does Its Score Mean?
Understand how AI detectors evaluate writing, why readings change, and how to interpret a score alongside confidence and draft history.
Paraphrasing
What Is Paraphrasing? Examples and APA Citations
Learn what paraphrasing means with faithful before-and-after examples, a patchwriting comparison, and narrative and parenthetical APA citations.
Word count
How to Check Word Count on Google Docs and Word
Check word count in Google Docs and Word, use the mobile controls, and keep your total visible while you edit.
AI detection
Does Turnitin Check for AI? How to Read Your Report
Learn how Turnitin checks for AI, what its asterisk means, and how to read AI findings separately from a similarity score.
Word count
How Many Pages Is 1000 Words? Single and Double Spaced
1000 words is about two single-spaced pages or four double-spaced pages, with font, margins and paragraph spacing determining the final fit.
What these notes are
Working notes, not announcements. When a number appears in one of them it was measured on the corpus described on the accuracy page, and the note links there.
How we measure accuracyWhat they are not
Not advice on getting past anyone. A detector is an instrument, and these notes are about reading it well, not about defeating it.
How we write and check articlesRead a text the way the detector does
Paste anything and you get one figure, its margin and a mark on every sentence.