What to do depends on what you are writing and how long you have. An essay due tomorrow, your own work flagged by a course tool, a personal statement, a cover letter, a dissertation chapter, marketing copy, a job application. Each one below has the steps and what it costs in credits.
01An essay you drafted with AI, due tomorrow
Check the whole draft first, so you know which sentences are flagged before you touch them. There is a longer walkthrough for checking an essay. Rewrite those sections, then read the result before you submit it. If a sentence no longer says what you meant, put your own wording back.
Check: 1 credit at any length. Rewrite: 1 credit per 50 words, about 2,000 words a run, so paste a long essay section by section and keep the order.
02Your own writing, flagged by a course tool
Run the check yourself before the conversation starts, so you walk in knowing the score and the flagged sentences. If it has already happened, read what to do when you are wrongly accused. If the flags land on sentence rhythm and stock phrasing rather than content, rewriting fixes them without changing what you said.
The signed drafting record (ECDSA P-256) exports with the text. Anyone can verify the signature without an account.
03A personal statement that reads generic
Generic usually means the sentences are interchangeable, not that the story is weak. The personal statement page goes through this line by line. Rewrite only the paragraphs that read as machine-made. Leave the lines carrying your own names, dates and details exactly as they are.
The rewrite minimum is 25 words, so single paragraphs can go one at a time.
04A cover letter that sounds like everyone else's
Paste the whole letter in one go, since a single paragraph often falls under the 65-word minimum for a check. After the rewrite, run the AI vocabulary checker for the words every other applicant is also using.
Rewriting a 400-word letter costs 8 credits. The check on top costs 1. The vocabulary checker is free and unlimited.
05A dissertation chapter written months apart
Sections written months apart often read like different writers, which the dissertation page covers at length. Check each one separately and compare the scores. Rewrite the section that sits furthest from the others instead of the whole chapter.
One check costs 1 credit whatever the length. The readability checker is free and unlimited.
06Marketing copy readers bounce off
Rewrite the paragraphs that come back flagged, then put a real number or a named example where each hedge was. See the page on blog posts and marketing copy. Check the reading level after the rewrite rather than before, since rewriting changes it.
Word counter and readability checker: free, unlimited, no credits spent.
07A teacher working out what a percentage means
A detector percentage is a reading of style, not evidence about who wrote the text. How teachers detect AI writing sets out what a number can and cannot support. Paste a sample of the same student's older work, from before this course, and see what it scores. If the two scores look alike, the number is describing how that student writes.
Scores run 0 to 100 with a band: Reads as AI-generated, Borderline, or Reads as human-written.