When your own work will be checked
You have an essay, report or assignment ready to submit, but you want to understand how it might read to our detector. That check can show passages worth reviewing. It cannot establish who wrote your work, confirm that you followed an assignment policy or predict another tool's response.
If your own writing is flagged, changing every marked sentence is not the answer. Keep the draft, research notes and sources that show how you developed the piece. Review the reading alongside that material. You can ask for a conversation about your process rather than accept a reading as proof.
Review the draft and your process
Read the result in context
Paste your draft or upload a file. Read the confidence rating before the figure, then look at the range and sentence marks. A short passage provides less evidence.
Keep your writing record
Save your drafts, notes and source references outside the tool. If a passage is flagged, compare it with your writing record and identify what you can explain about its development.
Fix issues you understand
Use the grammar checker to review named issues and accept or ignore each fix. Use the paraphraser for unclear wording, checking its comparison view against your intended meaning.
Review before handing it in
Read the revised draft against the assignment and your sources. Keep the version you submit and follow the assignment's tool rules. A detector reading does not replace those checks.
Example: Reviewing an essay conclusion
In this fictional example, you check an essay after revising its conclusion. The headline says "Mixed: part reads AI, part human" and "Our confidence" is Medium. Sentence marks point in different directions across the draft. You open "Most machine-like sentences" and notice that the conclusion uses broad claims where the body explains specific evidence. That difference gives you an editorial question, not an answer about authorship.
You read "Why this reading" for the length band and the independent model's reading. Then you compare the conclusion with your research notes. You replace an unsupported generalization with a summary of the evidence already discussed. You leave a marked sentence unchanged because it states your point clearly. Your next review concerns the argument and attribution, not whether the revision changes the detector's headline or confidence rating.
A clearer draft and a record
The useful outcome is a draft you can explain, with revisions you chose for a reason. Your notes and earlier versions give a reviewer material to discuss with you. Our reading remains evidence to review, not proof about you and never the sole basis for a grade.
The detector cannot tell you whether an essay contains copied material or whether its claims are supported. It does not compare your writing with published sources. Keep source review separate from the reading: check quoted wording, attribution and the connection between evidence and conclusions. A passage that reads toward human writing still needs those checks, just as a passage that reads toward AI may express your own work.
Questions
What should I do if my own writing is flagged?
Keep your writing record and ask for a review of the context. Bring drafts, notes and sources that help explain how you wrote the passage. Human writing can be flagged, so the result is not proof about you. Discuss the marked passages instead of rewriting only to change a reading.
Does a Low confidence rating mean I used AI?
No, Low describes our confidence in the reading, not your writing process. Short text has less evidence and receives a Low rating. The figure is the midpoint of a range, not a count of AI-written sentences. Read the rating, range and marks together before deciding what needs review.
Can I paraphrase an unclear sentence?
Yes, the paraphraser can rephrase a sentence while keeping the source order. Its modes and registers offer different wording, and its comparison view marks changed words. It checks factual details against the input. You still need to check meaning, source attribution and whether your assignment allows this kind of help.
Is the grammar checker free?
Yes, our grammar checker is free and unlimited without an account. It checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, style and typography. Each issue names its category and offers a fix you can apply or ignore. Paid plans add clarity suggestions. Review each proposed change so the final wording still expresses your meaning.
Does an AI reading check my citations?
No, the detector does not check citations or compare your essay with published sources. Its reading concerns writing patterns in the passage. Review each citation against the source yourself, including whether a quotation is exact and whether the source supports your claim. A reassuring headline does not establish that your references are complete, correct or appropriate for the assignment.
Why can an edited draft still read toward AI?
An edited draft can still read toward AI because rewriting does not necessarily remove the writing patterns our detector reads. We trained the detector with rewritten and paraphrased machine text. That does not establish how your draft was produced. Evaluate an edit by whether it improves meaning, structure or readability, and keep any required account of the help you used.
Is my pasted essay kept after a check?
Without an account, pasted detector text is read for the check and not kept. Checks made while signed in, free or paid, stay in your history, where you can delete one entry or all of it at any time. We do not train models on your text, sell it or share it. Keep your own copies of drafts and research notes outside the tool rather than relying on a check as your writing record.
Tools for this work
- AI detectorOne figure with our confidence rating and a mark on every sentence.
- Grammar checkerEvery issue named and explained, fixed in one click.
- ParaphraserSay the same thing in different words, in eight modes.
Free checks while you revise
Free use needs no card. Each tool has a daily free check with a word cap; the grammar checker and both counters have no cap. Paid plans add batch checks for separate drafts and clarity suggestions for wording that needs more explanation.