Content planner and copywriter at TextPulse. Sara runs the blog day to day, from planning and drafting through to publishing. She writes the practical guides: clear explanations of academic writing problems, aimed at the person who actually has to hand something in.
Most students are taught that academic writing has to hide the author entirely. APA Style's own guidance says the opposite, calls the belief a myth by name, and draws a different line than the one most classrooms teach.
The same topic can genuinely become six different studies depending on how the question is phrased. This works through all six types, descriptive to evaluative, with a real worked example and the method each one commits you to.
Chinese academic writing has its own formal register and its own set of AI tells, and mainland detection tools now check for them directly during submission. This piece covers what gets flagged, how universities across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are responding, and where a humanizer needs to be careful with citations and terminology.
French academic writing has a distinct formal register, and ChatGPT's version of it is easy to spot once you know the tells. This piece walks through what gets flagged, how universities across the francophone world are responding, and where a humanizer needs to tread carefully around citations and footnotes.
Korean academic writing runs on a fixed formal register, and machine-generated Korean drifts from it in specific, repeatable ways. This post walks through the tells, the detectors South Korean universities actually use, and what a citation-preserving rewrite needs to get right.
Persian academic prose has its own tells, stacked connector phrases like 'در این راستا' and 'از این رو' that ChatGPT reaches for in almost every paragraph. This post breaks down where those patterns come from, how Iranian universities and detectors currently treat AI-written text, and how a humanizer built for Persian syntax removes them without disturbing citations or register.