The trap isn't cheating; it's that a tool-generated draft flattens your actual thinking into the same neutral voice as everyone else's. The fix isn't to throw it away. It's to put your voice back on top of the argument you already built, so the essay reads like the person who did the reading.
Your thesis and your examples are the part that's yours. Leave them. What reads as AI is the framing: "it is important to note," "in conclusion," the three-point symmetry. Cut that scaffolding and the voice underneath shows through.
AI writes even sentences. You don't. After every calm sentence, allow one short and sharp. After a long winding one, a clipped reply. That swing is most of what reads as "human," and it takes five minutes with a highlighter.
The specific thing you actually remember — the source that surprised you, the line from lecture, the counter-argument a classmate made — is the one thing a model won't invent confidently. Drop one in per section. It's the cheapest human signal there is.
If a sentence makes you wince when spoken, it's not your voice. Rewrite it the way you'd say it to a smart friend. Don't run it through another tool to "fix" it — that re-adds the same smoothed pattern you're removing.
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