Academic Integrity
Our Commitment to Academic Integrity
ClarityScholar provides editing, review and academic feedback designed to help you improve work that remains your own.
Your work stays yours. We help you improve it.
- Authorship first
- Human review
- Transparent boundaries
- Responsible academic support
Our principles
Support without replacing authorship.
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Authorship first
The ideas, research, interpretation and academic decisions remain yours.
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Support, not substitution
Editing and feedback should help you improve work, rather than replace your academic contribution.
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Transparent boundaries
The service should be clear about what support can include, and what it cannot.
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Responsible learning and research
Support should encourage accurate sources, honest research practice, and careful use of technology.
What ClarityScholar can do
Depending on the agreed scope of support, a review may include some of the following. One engagement does not include every item.
- Improve clarity, academic tone and sentence flow
- Review organisation and paragraph structure
- Identify unclear reasoning or inconsistencies
- Provide editorial feedback
- Proofread grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Review citation consistency and formatting
- Review literature-review synthesis
- Review whether questions and methods appear aligned
- Improve the presentation of a reviewer response
- Review an application document while the applicant's story stays theirs
- Flag a source or factual-risk issue where it is apparent
- Discuss responsible AI concerns
What ClarityScholar does not do
These boundaries apply to every service, including a free assessment.
- Impersonate students
- Sit exams or tests
- Attend interviews on someone's behalf
- Complete assessed academic work on someone's behalf
- Fabricate research, data, findings or evidence
- Invent sources, quotations, page numbers or DOIs
- Create false citations
- Intentionally misrepresent authorship
- Produce fake qualifications or application credentials
- Help evade academic-integrity systems
- Help bypass AI-detection systems
- Guarantee a grade, admission, publication, or supervisor approval
Your work remains your own
Editing
Editing improves how your ideas are communicated and presented.
Authorship
Authorship is the intellectual contribution: the reasoning, the evidence, the interpretation, and the final academic decisions.
A substantial suggestion should still be read by you. You accept it, adapt it, or leave it. You remain responsible for the version you submit.
Acceptable support
A draft says “The findings shows that participants was more engaged.” Editing may correct that to “The findings show that participants were more engaged.” An editor may also note that a paragraph introduces two ideas and ask you to separate them or make the connection clear.
Outside the service
A request that supplies no argument and no evidence, and asks ClarityScholar to invent the assessed analysis or the research conclusion for submission, is outside the service.
These sentences were written for this page. They are not a client document.
Related pathways: academic editing and academic proofreading.
Research integrity
A research review looks at how the work is presented. It does not take over the study.
A review may look at
- Clarity of the research problem
- Consistency of questions and objectives
- Presentation of the methodology
- Apparent alignment of the question, design, sampling, data collection and analysis
- Literature synthesis and how a research gap is presented
- Clarity of findings, discussion and limitations
- Presentation of a response to reviewers
A review does not
- Invent participants, datasets, findings or survey responses
- Alter results to support a preferred conclusion
- Fabricate ethics approval
- Invent sources to fill a gap
- Make the scientific decisions that belong to the researcher
The researcher remains responsible for the research decisions and the evidence.
Sources and citations
Citation support is a review of what is already in the document. It is not a licence to manufacture references.
A review may
- Review citation consistency
- Flag a reference that appears to be missing
- Flag unclear attribution
- Review reference-list formatting
- Identify a source-verification concern
- Note that a claim needs stronger support
A review does not
- Invent sources or DOIs
- Create fake page numbers
- Fabricate quotations
- Knowingly cite material that has not been verified
An editor does not certify that every source in a document is genuine unless source checking is part of the agreed scope. ClarityScholar does not run a plagiarism scan. Visible citation, attribution and source-use issues can be flagged during review. Responsibility for the submitted work stays with the author.
Responsible use of AI in academic work
Rules differ. Follow the AI-use policy that applies to your university, course, supervisor, journal, employer or assessment.
A review may look at
- Voice consistency
- Generic or unsupported claims
- Clarity and coherence
- Factual-risk issues
- Source and citation concerns
- Responsible disclosure
- Places that need stronger reasoning or evidence from you
ClarityScholar does not claim that an AI detector can establish authorship with certainty.
ClarityScholar does not
- Guarantee a detector score
- Guarantee that text will appear human
- Rewrite text in order to evade detection
- Provide bypass techniques
- Certify authorship from a detector result
AI content review looks at voice consistency, clarity, generic or unsupported claims, source use, factual risk and academic tone. It is not a way to make writing undetectable. Read about AI content review.
Your institution's rules come first
Editing and AI-use rules differ among universities, departments, courses, supervisors and journals. Check the rule that applies before you use outside support. If that rule prohibits a kind of assistance, follow the rule. ClarityScholar does not claim to comply with every institution.
Your responsibilities
Outside review does not move these duties away from you.
- Check that you are allowed to use outside editing or review
- Give accurate instructions
- Read suggested changes
- Verify facts, citations and sources
- Keep accurate research records and follow ethics requirements
- Follow the AI rules that apply to the work
- Make the final academic decisions
- Submit only work you are entitled to submit
Supervisor and instructor feedback
You may share relevant supervisor or tutor comments, reviewer notes, a rubric, or a formatting guide. A review can help you see how the draft could respond more clearly. It does not override the supervisor or instructor.
Confidential handling
Academic documents and information should be handled confidentially within the support process, and only as needed for the requested service. Read the privacy policy.
The same boundaries apply to a free assessment
An assessment is there to identify a legitimate kind of support that may fit. It is not a route for completed assessed work, fabricated research, or detector evasion. Online submission is not currently available. Open the free assessment or see how a review proceeds.
Questions about these boundaries
Does ClarityScholar write assignments for students?
No. The service is editing, review and feedback on work you have created. It does not complete assessed work on a student's behalf.
Can an editor rewrite parts of my document?
An editor may revise wording where a sentence is hard to follow, and may suggest a clearer structure. You decide what to keep. The ideas and the final submission stay yours.
Who owns the final academic work?
You do. Authorship, including the reasoning and the decisions, remains with you.
Can you guarantee that my work is plagiarism-free?
No. A review can flag citation and attribution issues that are visible. It is not a plagiarism scan, and it is not a guarantee of originality.
Can you make AI-generated writing undetectable?
No. ClarityScholar does not rewrite text to evade a detector, and it does not guarantee a detector score.
Can you verify my research gap?
A review can comment on whether a gap you have identified is clearly supported by the literature you present. It should not invent the gap or the evidence.
Can you create citations or sources for me?
No. Sources, quotations, page numbers and DOIs are not invented.
What if my university does not allow external editing?
Follow that rule. If the assistance is not allowed, do not request it.
Can I share supervisor feedback?
Yes, when it relates to the document. The review can help you respond more clearly. It does not replace the supervisor's judgement.
Have a question about what kind of support is appropriate?
The assessment and contact pages explain what you can ask, and they state that online submission is not connected yet.