i am sooo frustrated rn. i finished my exams and they’re currently being marked but i got a call from my professor saying that one of my essays that was externally marked and moderated is being flagged for ai?? i mean firstly im anti anything to do with ai and secondly im just a very neat and persnickety writer. apparently the use of em dashes, oxford commas etc has set off alarm bells. im an english lit student why wouldn’t i use proper grammar and punctuation in my essays!!!
now im putting together all of my rough notes and plans and emails with my tutor to present my case next week and im really stressed, i’ve even had to find my exact gcse and a level english results to prove that ive always been academically capable and im just so overwhelmed. this is partly because im neurodivergent and my academic register tends to be very clinical, because i absorb the writing styles of the authors i read (a lot of 18th century stuff with long sentences and traditional sentence structures) without realising it.
i’m just really really upset, im not sure if they’ve put it through an ai checker but those things don’t even work because i ran an experiment and put loads of pre-ai texts through like the declaration of independence, on the origin of species etc. and they all returned 90-100% ai. im really hoping that they believe me when i can properly explain and analyse my text and show up with proof but if they don’t i really don’t know what im going to do 💔
if u show all ur proof and planning they surely can’t deny u put the work in?? that’s really frustrating omg