Academic Misconduct Allegations (help)
For a recent Engl 103 class I took, the prof flagged my essay (worth 25%) for ai and refuses to mark it until the verdict by the dean is imposed which is textbook so that’s fine. My only issue with this is that I didn’t use ai at all for the essay and he is saying that I have on the grounds that a ai checker called Winston ai flagged 100% of my essay. I used gptzero at the end just to see if my essay would fall under ai and it gave me a score of 0% which is the nature of ai checkers being very unreliable and constant in their verdicts. I met with my prof where he showed the 100% and I told him that they are flawed but he said “it’s the best of the ai detectors” and kept showing every paragraph falling under typical ai patterns. He notes that my sentences where very ‘balanced’ with the verb/verbs in the middle and context before and after them within the sentences and had ‘low burst’. From this he claimed my writing level is way to high to be able to balance which I don’t believe is true (as I legit wrote it myself) so I didn’t pay much attention to his claims and asked what sentences can we go through to see these claims and he said it would take too much time to go through the whole essay but eventually he let me go through a sentence which I explained throughly for my word choice and he simply defaulted back to the ai checker score and burst comment. From my understanding, burst is the varying of sentence lengths and perhaps style which from high school I’ve always been taught to compliment long sentences with medium and short length sentences which I carried the practice into this essay as well. I have draftback to show my keystrokes, over 8 days of writing sessions and 9 total hours of writing and editing to explain my 1400 essay to the dean. I have keystrokes, timelines, and physical notes (more rough drafts and idea brainstorms). He’s also basing this skill gap from an in person essay we had to write in 90 minutes (in person, zero open book materials, time crunch, etc.) to show my gap of writing level which I find flawed in its nature as it doesn’t have close to the same variables and fails as a control for my online at home essay. What I want to ask is, what ways can I pitch my defense to the dean and has anyone actually had success with completely defending themselves from getting an 8 (guilty verdict) on the 50/50 probability system? Sorry for the grammar asw, typed this up on my phone after an overnight shift.