First rule of humanize my AI essay club: make it sound like you. Add contractions (“can’t,” “won’t”), sprinkle in sensory verbs, and break up that perfect 30-word sentence into two shorter ones. Also swap generic transitions (“Furthermore,” “Moreover”) for vibe words (“On top of that,” “What’s more”).
+1. The Purdue OWL calls this “voice calibration”—matching academic register with personal narrative. (Their overview is gold: https://owl.purdue.edu/). A quick pass of pruning redundant adjectives often cuts the “AI echo” by 15 %.
Tool time: the free Humanize AI Text from EduBirdie rewrites passages with varied cadence. Paste 300 words, choose “Conversational” or “Narrative,” and it outputs a solid baseline you can tweak. Saved me last semester.