Freeze citations while you rewrite flagged passages

By Charles Li · Goldsmiths, University of London (alumni)

When an AI-writing report highlights continuous prose, the risk is not only the score—it is what you break while “fixing” the paragraph. Pasting a whole chapter into a chat often reshuffles in-text citations, equation numbers, and table callouts that the detector never marked.

A document-level workflow does the opposite: import the Turnitin or iThenticate AI report (or select the flagged spans yourself), rewrite only those continuous prose spans, and leave citations, numerals, formulas, and layout anchors untouched. You still re-read the next report; you do not treat a badge as a verdict or promise a pass.

Practical order: open the highlights first; revise the highest-flagged prose; keep reference keys and display equations frozen; then submit again and compare span-by-span. Tools such as HumanPen are built around that import-and-rewrite loop, billed by rewritten words—not by claiming the detector will stay quiet forever.

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