Freeze the bibliography before you touch the red spans
When an AI-writing report paints continuous prose, the instinct is to rewrite the whole submission. That usually breaks more than it fixes: citation styles drift, table captions get “helpfully” paraphrased, and claim strength quietly changes.
A tighter loop works better. Export the file. Freeze references, numbers, and headings. Then rewrite only the flagged continuous-prose spans—and re-check that the argument still says what you meant. That is document-level polish, the job HumanPen (https://humanpen.net) is built for.
Keep similarity and AI-writing scores in separate mental buckets. A low similarity number does not cancel an AI-writing highlight; disagreement between tools is a fairness question, not a confession.
HumanPen does not sell rankings or guaranteed clearance. It helps you work the marked spans while the rest of the document stays yours.
— Charles Li / HumanPen
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