Trust and verification.
Why AI invents citations, how verification against real sources works, and what retractions, provenance, and academic integrity mean for your thesis.
Trust & verification7 min readWhat academic integrity boards look for in AI cases
How academic integrity boards typically approach AI cases: what triggers them, the evidence they weigh, and how to keep a defensible record.
Trust & verification8 min readAI ethics in research writing: a practical checklist
A practical AI ethics checklist for research writing: disclosure, data protection, accountability, and keeping your thesis defensible.
Trust & verification7 min readPrompting an AI for research: grounded vs ungrounded
Grounded and ungrounded AI produce very different research output. What grounding really means, and the prompts that keep your citations real.
Trust & verification7 min readThe risks of AI paraphrasing tools in academic writing
AI paraphrasing tools can distort evidence, flatten your voice, and cross plagiarism lines. Here are the real risks and what to do instead.
Trust & verification8 min readHow to talk to your supervisor about using AI
A practical script for raising AI use with your supervisor: what to prepare, what to ask, and how to turn the answers into a written agreement.
Trust & verification8 min readHow to read your university AI policy
Find every policy layer that applies to you, decode vague wording, and turn your university's AI rules into a checklist you can actually follow.
Trust & verification8 min readHow to cite AI tools like ChatGPT in APA and MLA
APA 7 and MLA formats for citing ChatGPT and other AI tools, with copyable templates, in-text examples, and when you need a disclosure instead.
Trust & verification8 min readAI detectors and false positives: what students need to know
Why AI detectors flag honest writing, what a false positive does and does not prove, and how to build evidence of your own process before anyone asks.
Trust & verification11 min readHow to write an AI use disclosure statement for your thesis
What to include in an AI use disclosure statement for your thesis: four questions to answer, five statements to adapt, and evidence examiners trust.
Trust & verification7 min readCiteDash AI vs Jenni AI: an alternative for your thesis
An honest Jenni AI alternative: where AI autocomplete speeds academic writing, and why citations grounded and verified against full text is the difference that survives a viva.
Trust & verification7 min readHow to avoid accidental plagiarism in your thesis
Most thesis plagiarism is accidental: close paraphrase, a citation lost in a late edit, or reusing your own work. Here is how grounded drafting, a span-bound quote bank, and citation-locked revision stop it before you reach the similarity check.
Trust & verification7 min readReading papers with sentence-level provenance
The Library reader answers only from a paper's stored full text and points every answer to the exact source span: ask a PDF questions, explain it at your level, and bank quotes that carry a page-accurate citation.
Trust & verification11 min readIs there an AI that doesn't make up references?
Yes. Fabricated references end when citations are database objects verified against full text. The by-construction answer, plus a test checklist.
Trust & verification11 min readCiteDash AI vs ChatGPT for writing a thesis
An honest comparison of CiteDash AI and ChatGPT for thesis writing: where each helps, where free-text citations break, and what survives a viva.
Trust & verification8 min readHow to check your thesis before you submit
A pre-submission gate that checks originality, grounding, references, and AI-use disclosure in one pass, plus an honest guide to running the binding Turnitin or iThenticate check at your institution.
Trust & verification11 min readWhy AI makes up citations, and the fix
ChatGPT and other chatbots invent references because they predict text, not truth. The mechanism, the five failure modes, and the structural fix.
Trust & verification10 min readCan you use AI to write your thesis?
What university AI policies allow, where AI thesis writing crosses into misconduct, and how to make your AI disclosure defensible with records.
Trust & verification11 min readHow verified citations work: the four verdicts
Supported, partial, unsupported, unverified: what the Fact Checker actually checks, why it never grounds on abstracts, and how to fix each verdict.