Academic integrity

We polish. We don’t generate.

Rewritelyapp exists because thoughtful applicants and researchers deserve a thoughtful editor, not a ghostwriter. The line between editing and writing is the line we’ve built the entire product around. This page explains, in plain language, exactly where that line is.

What we do

Polish prose you wrote.

Tighten sentences. Replace clichés. Flag missing thesis statements. Suggest stronger openers. Surface a 23-criterion rubric score. Annotate every change with a reason and a citation.

What we don’t do

Write essays for you.

No ‘generate me a personal statement’ button. No ‘continue this paragraph’. No prompt-to-paper. If you don’t have a draft, Rewritelyapp has nothing to do.

Why this matters

Editors are allowed. Ghostwriters aren’t.

Every major academic integrity framework, ICMJE, COPE, Common App, UCAS, university honor codes, explicitly permits editing help. They explicitly forbid AI-generated text submitted as one’s own. Rewritelyapp sits firmly on the permitted side.

Framework mapping

What the major integrity frameworks actually say, and where Rewritelyapp sits in each.

Framework	What it permits	What it forbids	Rewritelyapp
ICMJE Medical journals	Language editing by humans or AI, disclosed in acknowledgments.	AI as author. Undisclosed AI-generated text.	Permitted with disclosure
COPE Publication ethics	AI used as a writing tool, transparently declared.	AI used to fabricate data or text without disclosure.	Permitted with disclosure
Common App US undergraduate	Editorial help, including from tutors and tools.	Substantial AI-generated content presented as one’s own.	Permitted, our polish is editing
UCAS UK undergraduate	Help from teachers, advisors, editing software.	Statements written by anyone but the applicant.	Permitted, you write, we polish
Nature / Springer Research journals	AI for language editing, declared in Methods.	AI as author or undisclosed substantive text.	Permitted with declaration
Most US/UK universities Honor codes	Grammar checkers, editors, writing center help.	Submitting AI-generated work as your own.	Permitted, check your school’s policy

This table is a summary, not legal advice. Your institution’s policy is authoritative. We strongly recommend reading it.

The line, drawn precisely

What Rewritelyapp will and won’t do, by example.

✓ Will do

Replace a generic opener (“In today’s world…”) with one drawn from a specific scene you described later in the same draft.

✓ Will do

Tighten a sentence by removing nominal-phrase padding, while preserving its claim verbatim.

✓ Will do

Flag that your Discussion section never states a forward-looking implication, and ask you to add one.

× Won’t do

Generate a personal statement from a prompt like “Write me a statement about my interest in computational biology.” The app will refuse.

× Won’t do

Continue an unfinished paragraph by inventing claims, scenes, or experiences not present in your draft.

× Won’t do

Rewrite a quantitative result, methodology, or citation. Sentences containing these are passed through untouched.

Disclosure

How to disclose Rewritelyapp use, if your reviewer asks.

If you’re submitting to a journal or program that asks you to disclose AI tool use, we recommend language that’s honest, specific, and not apologetic. Below: three example disclosure sentences, drafted for the three most common contexts.

For a journal Methods / Acknowledgments section

“Language editing of the manuscript was assisted by Rewritelyapp (v3.0), an AI-based polishing tool. The authors verified all edits and remain responsible for the content.”

For a university application disclosure field

“I used Rewritelyapp to polish my draft, specifically, to tighten prose and check for AI-typical phrasing. The content, structure, and ideas are my own.”

For a coursework declaration form

“I used Rewritelyapp for editing assistance. No content was generated by AI; all ideas, arguments and structure are my own work.”

Our commitment

Five things we promise, written down so you can hold us to them.

We will never add a ‘generate from prompt’ feature. Rewritelyapp requires your draft as input. No draft, no output.
We will never fabricate facts, citations, or experiences. Hallucinated content is the single fastest way to get a student flagged. Our pipeline refuses to insert any factual claim not already in your draft.
We will show you every edit with a reason. No silent rewrites. If we can’t explain a change, we don’t make it.
We will never train on your documents. Your essays are encrypted at rest, deleted 30 days after your last edit, and not used to train any model. Security details →
We will give you disclosure language for free. If your institution asks how you used Rewritelyapp, we publish honest, ready-to-paste disclosure sentences above.

You wrote the draft. We’ll help you make it sing.

That’s the whole product. No tricks, no shortcuts, no shortcuts around shortcuts.

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