How to Check Academic Work Before You Submit

A thorough review asks four questions at once. Which passages sit too close to their source? Which paragraphs rest on generic phrasing rather than your own data and argument? Do the reference list and the in-text citations match each other in both directions? Is the academic register consistent across sections?

These can be examined together or one at a time. Narrowing the scope, for example to citation consistency alone, keeps the report short and focused when you already know what you are looking for.

Upload your document and choose a scope: a full academic review, similarity analysis, AI-writing signal analysis, source and citation checking, or academic language and rephrasing. Running the full review first and then drilling into individual scopes is a practical order of work.

You can also add a focus note, such as the reference formatting, the conclusion, or the quotations in the methodology section. Findings come with page numbers wherever possible so you can go straight to the passage. The document needs a text layer, so run PDF OCR on a scanned thesis first.

This review does not reach institutional databases, publisher archives or student paper repositories, and it does not search the web for matching sources. Its findings come from signals inside your own text: definitive claims presented without a source, abrupt shifts in register, reference entries that never appear in the text, and in-text citations with no matching entry.

For that reason it produces no percentage and it is not an accusation. A flagged passage is usually an easy fix: a forgotten citation, a quotation that was never put in quotation marks, or a paragraph that stayed too general. You still need your institution's official similarity report; this review prepares for it rather than replacing it.

When a passage is too close to its source, you have two clean options. Keep the wording and mark it as a quotation with a page-level citation, or restate it in your own terms. Swapping in synonyms is not enough: rebuild how the idea is presented and cite the source anyway.

For citation findings, match text and bibliography in both directions, confirming that every entry appears at least once in the text and that every in-text reference has an entry. For paragraphs flagged as generic, rewrite them around your own data, examples, fieldwork or argument. What makes a paragraph yours is the contribution it carries, not the style it is written in.