u/Ok_Fee_1678

Me choosing the hardest academic program thinking it would “challenge me”

3 days later:

“I have made a terrible mistake.” 🫩

I’m genuinely curious how students are supposed to write academically anymore. If you use formal vocabulary, keep your paragraphs organized, avoid slang, and write grammatically correct sentences, suddenly your writing can look “AI-like.” Especially for students who learned English as a second language, formal and structured writing is literally how we were taught to write. At what point does “good academic writing” become suspicious? Has anyone else had Turnitin flag writing that was completely their own?