Fix AI-generated prose for journal submission

Methods, results, and discussion that read assembled. The rewrite keeps the argument and gets the writing out of the way.

Reviewers read hundreds of abstracts a season, and several of them read yours. The classifiers they run read the same shape our checker does: uniform sentences, announced structure, Latinate verbs where a plain one would do.

The sample, checked16 pts

This study examines the correlation between remote work adoption and employee retention rates across technology startups. Data collected from 1,200 firms indicates a 23% reduction in voluntary turnover when flexible scheduling is implemented. These findings underscore the crucial role of organizational flexibility in fostering sustainable workforce engagement, and contribute valuable insights to the broader literature on human capital management.

Review recommended: 16 points, against a review band of 10. Every mark above is a passage the detector named in the sample. The tool below runs the same check on your text.

Your draft

59 / 1,000 words

After

The abstract is where it shows

An abstract is compressed, which means the tells compress with it. A 150-word abstract cannot hide a metronomic rhythm, because there is no room to vary. A manuscript submitted to a good journal passes through readers who have each sat on a committee, and several of those readers have a classifier running underneath the reading, which means the prose has to survive a human and a statistician in the same pass, and the shape the model gives it is the one that fails the second without ever irritating the first. The classifier a reviewer runs reads exactly that: sentence lengths in a narrow band, a thesis announced, a summary that restates the thesis.

What the rewrite will not do

It will not change what your results are. A number, a comparison, a limit of the study all survive. What changes is the scaffolding around them, the crucial role and the valuable insights, which say nothing and cost you the reviewer's patience. The harshest margins come from reviewers who have read a hundred abstracts that week, and the ones they remember are the ones worth rereading.

Is it acceptable to use a rewriting tool on a submission?

Most journals ask you to disclose AI assistance, and the honest thing is to disclose it. What the tool does is editing, and editing has always been allowed. It rewords. It does not supply the design, the data, or the argument, and those are the parts a journal is actually evaluating.

Will it touch my citations and numbers?

Protect them and they are frozen. Protected spans pass through the rewrite untouched, which is how a sentence like `23% reduction in voluntary turnover` survives. Anything you do not protect is fair game, so protect the measurements.

Does it know academic register?

It knows four registers: Slack, email, skip-level, and LinkedIn. Skip-level is the closest fit for formal written prose, and this page starts there. On Pro you can define your own document type, which is the better answer for a manuscript.