The Honest Editor's Desk
A working editor's course on rescuing AI-touched prose — memos, emails, cover letters — without losing the voice or the point. For professionals who use models daily and want their writing to still sound unmistakably like them.
Outcome
Take any AI-touched draft and edit it back into something a careful reader would recognise as yours.
- Lesson 01 · Explainer6 min
What makes writing sound human
Detectors describe what AI writing looks like in negative — the tells, the flags. This piece does the opposite. What actually makes prose read as a person made it?
BurstinessPerplexityRegisterSpecificity - Lesson 02 · Guide7 min
Why AI writing gets flagged — and how to fix it
AI text gets flagged for specific, nameable reasons. Here are the tells a detector reacts to, and how to write — or rewrite — around each one.
Hedging - Lesson 03 · Guide7 min
Editing a cover letter the AI helped you draft
You let a model write the first pass. Now it reads like everyone's first pass. Here's the editor's workflow for putting yourself back in.
CalibrationSpecificitySycophancyVoice - Lesson 04 · Ethics6 min
Citing AI assistance honestly
Most AI-use policies leave you to write the disclosure yourself. Here is a defensible standard — and the exact phrasing for each common case.