When your writing is doubted

Being told that your own writing reads like a machine’s is happening to a lot of people who wrote every word. These guides say what to do about it: what a detector score is, what evidence of writing exists, and how to gather it, with iwrote or without.

• How to prove you wrote it

  Why a detector score cannot settle it, what evidence of writing exists, how to gather it for a piece already written, and how to keep it for the next.

• Ways to show writing is human, compared

  Statements, badges, detector scores, version history, Grammarly Authorship, Certified Human and iwrote: what each shows, and what a reader can check.

• Accused of using AI

  Falsely accused of using AI on an essay or an article? What to ask first, what evidence to bring, what a detector score is and is not, and how to answer.

• Turnitin flagged my essay as AI

  What a Turnitin AI score means, what Turnitin itself says about false positives, and what to bring to your teacher when the score is wrong.

• Flagged as AI on Substack

  A reader ran Substack's Pangram scan on your post and it says AI. What the scan is, what Substack lets you do about it, and how to show readers.

• Why AI detectors flag human writing

  What an AI detector measures, why careful human writing can score as AI, who gets flagged most, and what a score can and cannot be used for.

• Does an em dash mean AI wrote it?

  Why the em dash became a supposed sign of AI writing, why one punctuation mark cannot tell you who wrote a piece, and why you should keep yours.

• Google Docs version history

  How to use Google Docs version history to show you wrote an essay, how to show it to a teacher, and where it falls short as evidence.

• Checking student writing without a detector

  For teachers: why a detector score cannot settle it, what to ask for instead, how to have the conversation, and how to set work that shows its own process.