Use it
Get useful feedback on your draft
A chatbot can read your draft in seconds and tell you what isn't working. Ask it the right way and it's a patient editor. Ask it the wrong way and it quietly writes your essay.
Traffic light: amber
Feedback is amber: useful when you make the changes yourself and your teacher allows it. A rewrite you hand in as your own is red.
Why it matters
Comments teach you. Rewrites don't.
When a chatbot rewrites your paragraph, it usually does read better, but it's no longer yours, and you haven't learned what was wrong with the original. A specific comment like "your second paragraph repeats your first" makes you fix it, and next time you'll spot it yourself.
Try this
Ask for comments, not changes
Copy this prompt
Here's my draft: [paste it]. The task is: [paste the task and marking criteria, if you
have them]. Don't rewrite anything. Give me three specific comments on structure and
clarity, each pointing to the sentence it's about. Then ask me one question about what
I meant.
- Paste the task and criteria. Without them, it's judging your work against a task it's guessing at.
- Make each change yourself, in your own words.
- Disagree when you want to. It's feedback, not a verdict.
Watch out
Three traps
- !Rewrite creep."Show me how you'd say it" is still a rewrite. Once you copy its sentence, your voice is gone.
- !Empty praise."This is a strong essay" teaches you nothing. Ask for the weakest point instead.
- !It doesn't know your teacher.Your teacher's comments and criteria outrank anything a chatbot says.
Keep going
Feedback is only as good as the question you ask. Here's how to ask better ones.
Last reviewed: 25 September 2026