Pre-submission checklist
A five-part checklist to run before submitting a paper, thesis, or assignment: citation completeness and verbatim accuracy, quote and paraphrase disclosure, source-list integrity, AI-use disclosure, and one structured originality review.
Updated 2026-07-22
What an integrity checklist covers, how to check a paper before submission, and what a structured review can and cannot prove.
Five clusters: every citation present and verbatim-accurate at its cited page; direct quotes clearly separated from paraphrase; a source list where in-text citations and reference entries match in both directions; AI assistance disclosed according to the venue's policy; and one structured, originality-focused review at the end. Each item is checkable against your text and sources — none relies on feeling confident.
Work from the evidence outward. Reopen each source at the cited page and compare quotes word for word, confirm the reference list and in-text citations match in both directions, write the AI-use disclosure your policy asks for, then run a structured review. WriteGo's Integrity Review scores grammar, clarity, style, citation integrity, source transparency, and originality readiness, and every finding quotes an exact excerpt from your text.
A self-check can show which passages a reviewer might question, but detector output is originality-risk evidence, not a verdict — WriteGo says the same on its own detector pages. Documented sources, drafts, and a clear disclosure protect you better than a low score. A structured integrity review that quotes your own text and states its limits is usually the more actionable final pass.
No, and it should not claim to. WriteGo's Integrity Review never compares your document with plagiarism or publication databases and never claims text is plagiarized, human-written, or AI-written — these limits are printed on every report. It is review evidence to use alongside sources, drafts, policy, and human judgment, not proof of anything.
Every borrowed claim carries a citation, and every direct quote matches its source character for character at the cited page. Check quotes against the page, not against your notes — in ChatPDF, evidence notes re-check each saved quote against the current document, so a drifted transcription surfaces before it reaches your draft.
Anything word-for-word wears quotation marks and a page locator; paraphrase restates the idea in genuinely your own structure, still with a citation. Wording that drifts close to the source without quotation marks is the risk zone — reread each paraphrase beside the page it came from, and quote it properly if the structure is still the author's.
Every in-text citation appears in the reference list and every reference entry is cited in the text. Entries should resolve — a DOI, arXiv ID, PubMed ID, or URL that actually reaches the work — and follow one style consistently. WriteGo resolves reference metadata from those identifiers and keeps per-field provenance, so you can see which values were resolved, imported, or edited.
Read the course, journal, or institutional policy before writing the disclosure, then state which tools you used and for what — drafting, editing, translation, or review. Keep your drafts. WriteGo's review never claims to know whether a person or an AI wrote your text, which is precisely why your own disclosure, in your own words, is the control that counts.
Finish with a review that reads the document the way an examiner would. Integrity Review takes 50–12,000 characters — pasted or uploaded as TXT, Markdown, DOCX, or PDF — scores six dimensions from 0 to 100, and returns up to 12 findings that quote exact excerpts, up to 5 strengths, and up to 6 prioritized next steps, for 5 credits per 5,000 characters. A failed review bills nothing.
A checklist lowers risk; it cannot certify integrity. No tool can prove a document is original, and WriteGo's reports say so explicitly: no plagiarism-database comparison, no human-vs-AI verdicts, limits printed on every report. What you can control is the evidence trail — accurate quotes, a resolvable source list, an honest disclosure, and a documented final review.
Leave at least a working day. Verbatim quote checks against source pages are the slowest item, and you want time to act on review findings. Re-running Integrity Review after edits is cheap to predict: 5 credits per 5,000 characters, at most 15 at the 12,000-character maximum, with the estimate shown before you run.
No. It reviews only the text you submit — plus, optionally, the exact source-package excerpts you select — and every report states that it performs no plagiarism-database comparison and issues no human-vs-AI verdicts.
Review it in parts — chapter by chapter or section by section. The server counts Unicode characters, and each part up to 5,000 characters costs 5 credits. Review history keeps each part's input text, report, and credit receipt, so you can track what has been covered.
The checklist itself is tool-neutral — share it. Inside WriteGo, an Integrity Review report can be copied as Markdown and shared with a supervisor.