Polish a Thesis Chapter
Paste a chapter section at a time. The assistant tightens prose, fixes tense drift between paragraphs, and surfaces topic sentences — without rewriting your argument or stripping your voice.
Ask anything about your paper, your topic, or your sources. The assistant searches peer-reviewed academic databases and replies with grounded guidance and citations you can use. Looking for grammar and clarity edits instead? Try the AI Proofreader.
Think of this as the polish pass. You've already done the hard part — the argument, the evidence, the structure. Paste in a paragraph, a methods section, a whole chapter, and you get back clean prose with every change called out individually. Keep what you like. Toss the rest. Nothing changes until you click accept.
The tuning is what matters. A generic grammar checker will happily flatten a methods section into business English. This one knows the methods section is supposed to read passively. It keeps your tense consistent from abstract to discussion. It catches the rhythms that quietly out a paragraph as AI-written. Your citations, equations, gene names, Latin terms — left alone. That's normally where these tools fall over.
Every edit shows up in a side panel as one bullet: original sentence, the rewrite, a one-line reason ("trimmed throat-clearing", "fixed tense", "tightened topic sentence"). You scan. You accept the ones you like and reject the rest. The draft updates in place. The assistant handles the mechanics. You stay in charge of the prose.
Paste a chapter section at a time. The assistant tightens prose, fixes tense drift between paragraphs, and surfaces topic sentences — without rewriting your argument or stripping your voice.
Run your abstract, introduction, and discussion through the assistant before submission. Most desk rejections cite "language quality" — fix that before reviewers see it.
Word limits are real. The assistant trims redundancy and tightens phrasing without losing technical precision — often pulling 10–15% off the word count without you giving up substance.
The assistant catches the article and preposition errors most spell-checkers miss, while leaving your technical vocabulary alone. It will not flatten your voice into generic English — corrections are minimal and motivated.
If part of your draft was written with ChatGPT or another LLM, the telltale phrasing ("delve into", "in conclusion", "it is important to note") is flagged and rewritten.
Undergraduate or graduate essay due tomorrow? Paste it in for one final clarity pass. The assistant won't write it for you — but it'll catch the awkward sentences that pull a B+ down to a B−.
No. The edits are corrective and structural — grammar, tense, concision, topic sentences, transitions. Not stylistic. Write long careful sentences and you'll get long careful sentences back, mechanics tightened. Write punchy ones? They stay punchy. Voice is yours.
Yes. (Smith, 2019), (Smith 42), [12], Chicago footnote markers — all left exactly where you placed them. The assistant edits the prose around the marker, never the marker itself. Your reference list still resolves after a pass.
Not directly. What it does is rewrite the rhythms LLMs default to: overuse of "delve" and "navigate", three-clause sentences in a row, the slightly-too-balanced phrasing. You don't get a detection score. You get prose that doesn't trip one. If you want an actual score, that's a different tool.
Grammarly is built for business email. Point it at a methods section and it'll suggest you sound more confident. The Writing Assistant knows methods sections are supposed to read passively. It won't try to fix your hedging. It doesn't flag "we observed that" as wordy. And the per-edit accept/reject panel beats a wall of underlines for anything longer than a paragraph.
Yes. Your text lives in memory while the request runs and is gone after the response comes back. We don't store drafts. We don't store the change log. Nothing trains a model. The privacy policy spells the specifics out. If you're working under embargo or NDA, that's why we built it this way.
Aim for a chapter at most — roughly 5,000 words. Beyond that, work in sections. Abstract, intro, methods, results, discussion. Doing it section-by-section gives you tighter control anyway, since you can accept changes per section before moving on.
No. That's a deliberate choice. The assistant edits writing you've already done. Hand it a stub and you'll get back a polished stub. The argument and the evidence are yours. Our job is making them legible.
English only for now. ESL writers tend to get the most out of it — it catches the article and preposition slips spell-checkers miss, without flattening your technical vocabulary into something blander. Multi-language support is on the list. It's not shipping yet.
You start with 10 credits on signup, plus 3 free credits each day you log in. A paragraph pass runs 1–2 credits. A full section is more. Top-up packs live on the pricing page. Credits don't expire and there's no subscription.
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Edited prose should still pass a plagiarism scan. Run the rewritten draft through the Plagiarism Checker to catch any phrasing that's still too close to the source.
If you started from an AI draft, the Writing Assistant's tone fixes won't always remove the underlying patterns reviewers look for. Cross-check the result with the AI Detector.
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