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Receipts-based writing about AI writing. No detector snake oil, no humanizer spam. Every claim sourced, every experiment shown.

Claude now watermarks its text. What the mark can and cannot prove.

The mark proves processing, not authorship. A grammar-checked essay carries the same mark as a ghost-written one. The full honest breakdown.

16 Aug 2026

What does "deslop" mean?

The word is entering the dictionary in real time. Definition, origin, why it is not detector evasion, and the five-pass method.

12 Aug 2026

How to cite a website in APA, including the one with no author

The four situations every webpage falls into, with the exact reference and in-text citation for each. Covers no author, no date, and the site-name rule most generators break.

16 Aug 2026 · APA 7th edition

Falsely accused of using AI when you wrote it yourself

Detectors measure how predictable your writing is, not who wrote it. Researchers took a 5% flag rate to 57% by simplifying vocabulary alone. What the numbers say, and what evidence actually works.

17 Aug 2026 · Sourced and linked

Accused of using AI at a UK university, and how the appeal actually works

Internal stages, the Completion of Procedures letter, then the free OIA route with its twelve-month deadline. Why to argue process rather than science.

17 Aug 2026 · England and Wales

Accused of using AI at an Australian university, and how to escalate

The National Student Ombudsman has taken complaints since February 2025 and has no time limit. Plus the Australian universities that switched Turnitin detection off.

17 Aug 2026 · Australia

How to cite a website in Harvard, and which Harvard you actually mean

Harvard is a family of styles, not one style. The Cite Them Right pattern, the 2025 change to place of publication, and the accessed date that APA does not want.

16 Aug 2026 · Cite Them Right 13th edn

How to cite a website in MLA, including the rule that deletes your author

When an organisation is both author and publisher, MLA removes the author entirely. Almost every free generator breaks this. Ours did too.

16 Aug 2026 · MLA 9th edition

The AI Words List: 46 words that make writing sound like ChatGPT

Our own experiment: AI copy scored 222 tells per 1,000 words. Lincoln scored 3.7. Darwin scored zero. The full dated lexicon, with the fix for each habit.

12 Aug 2026 · Lexicon v1.0

Why was my essay flagged as AI when I wrote it myself?

The false-positive numbers, the court cases, and what you can actually do. Coming this week.

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What is burstiness? The sentence-rhythm number detectors run on

See your own rhythm skyline and learn why flat rhythm reads robotic. Coming this week.

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