The Suspicious Submission

A second-year student in your seminar submits an essay that reads — to your ear — like generated text. The cadence is too even, the transitions too clean, the arguments oddly bloodless. You run it through the AI detector your institution licenses. It returns 87% likelihood of AI generation. The student has written strong, idiosyncratic work for you all term. You also know the detector has flagged human writing before, including, last semester, an international student's thesis chapter.