Tighten an essay without losing your voice

Generic AI rewrites make essays sound like everyone else's. The trick is small, scoped passes — clarity, grammar, citations — where you keep or reject each change instead of replacing the whole draft.

Clarity without the robot voice

Select one paragraph at a time. Ask to "tighten wording but keep my tone and examples." If a hunk swaps your anecdote for a generic one, reject it. The model only learns from what you accept in that session.

Citations and formatting

• Highlight the bibliography and ask for APA/MLA consistency — check every hunk against your style guide.
• Fix passive voice in the introduction only; leave the conclusion until the body is final.
• Run a final "flag unsupported claims" pass before submit.

Sound less like AI

Ask explicitly: "remove stock phrases and hedge words; keep my sentence rhythm." Students who review hunks line-by-line report fewer professor comments about generic phrasing — because the edits are incremental, not a full ghostwrite.