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Authenticity Rewriter

Paste an essay you wrote yourself, get suggested edits that preserve your voice while reducing the patterns automated detectors latch onto. The goal is never to write worse, it is to write defensively.

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Results will appear here once you submit your text.

How to use this

Paste a paragraph of your own writing that a detector has flagged, ideally the exact passage, and ask for the flagged phrases. The rewriter does not produce a new paragraph for you. It marks the features that automated detectors tend to weight: sentences of nearly identical length, a run of intensifiers, transitions that open every sentence the same way, vocabulary that sits closer to a textbook than to a student's speaking voice. Each mark comes with a note on why a detector reacts to it.

Then do the rewriting yourself. Take one marked feature at a time. If three sentences in a row run to twenty words, break one and lengthen another. If "very" and "really" appear in adjacent lines, cut them and let the verb carry the weight. If every sentence opens with a subject and a verb, move a clause to the front of one. Reread the paragraph aloud; if it sounds more like you than it did, keep it. If it sounds worse, put the original back, because a flag is not a grade and your teacher reads the essay, not the detector.

Keep the earlier drafts. The best defence against a false positive is a document history that shows the paragraph growing, and this tool is meant to be used alongside that record, not instead of it. The widget on this page is a preview: until the full version ships, the result panel shows a worked example of the marks it makes rather than an analysis of your text.

Important caveats

This is a tool for students who wrote their own work and were flagged anyway. It is not a way to launder generated text, and it would not do that well: a paragraph a model wrote has more wrong with it than sentence length, and a detector run on the edited version may score it exactly the same. Submitting AI-generated writing as your own is a breach of the academic integrity policy at nearly every school, and nothing on this page changes that.

The marks are heuristics, not measurements. They describe patterns detectors have been observed to weight, and they can be wrong in both directions: plenty of authentic student prose is uniform and formal, and plenty of generated prose is not. Making a paragraph less uniform does not make it more true, more argued or better evidenced, and an essay can be flagged for reasons no rewriter can see, such as a topic sentence borrowed from a study guide.

Do not rewrite your voice out of the essay to satisfy a number. Teachers know what their students sound like; a paragraph that suddenly reads like someone else is a bigger red flag than a detector score. If you have been accused, the tool is not evidence. Your drafts, your notes and a conversation with the teacher are, and why an essay gets flagged as AI explains how to have that conversation.