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The articles we wish someone had written for us.

Practical writing advice from the team that built Rewritelyapp, rubrics, style notes, before/afters, and the academic-writing problems most tools won’t touch.

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For students · 12 min read

The reviewer-aware (in development) personal statement rubric, in full.

Every criterion, every weight, what reviewers actually score, and 8 worked examples drawn from admitted Cambridge and Stanford statements.

For researchers · 9 min read

Why Methods sections should stay passive (and what to do instead).

Style guides for nine of fourteen major journals explicitly favor passive voice in Methods. Here’s the reason, and what to polish instead.

ESL academic English · 14 min read

The 18 phrases that mark a non-native draft, and how to fix each.

‘Delve into’, ‘multifaceted’, ‘cutting-edge technology’. Where these come from, why reviewers notice them, and concrete replacements.

For students · 8 min read

How to open a personal statement, 12 worked openings.

Six bad openings rewritten, six good openings explained. What makes the first 38 words the only ones a reviewer reads carefully.

Methodology · 16 min read

How we built the citation-aware pipeline.

The architecture, the failure modes we hit, and why we ended up with a placeholder-and-reinsert design instead of LLM-only.

Case study · 7 min read

How a Cambridge MPhil draft can move from rubric score 31 to 87.

The full draft, the seven edits, the reviewer notes, and the conditional offer that came two months later.

For researchers · 11 min read

The four sentences your Discussion section needs.

Restatement, qualification, comparison, future-work. Why this structure is non-negotiable in 12 of 14 supported journals.

Methodology · 18 min read

How we evaluate AI-text detectors, full methodology.

The 200-essay corpus, the rotation schedule, what we don’t test for, and where our methodology will break first.

For students · 6 min read

How to write a forward-looking close that doesn’t lie.

The ‘five-year vision’ question, the lies most applicants tell, and three structures that get specific without overcommitting.

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