Keep drafts and history as evidence of your own writing

Many universities now run AI writing detection alongside similarity checks. Turnitin's own guidance says its AI writing report can misidentify text and should not be used as the only basis for action against a student. In practice, a flagged report usually leads to a conversation with your supervisor or a committee.

The best protection is a visible writing process:

• Write in a tool that keeps version history, such as Google Docs, Overleaf or a Git repository.
• Keep your notes, outlines and earlier drafts rather than deleting them.
• Be ready to explain how a section developed and to discuss it without the text in front of you.

Students who write their own reports gradually have nothing to fear from this process. Students who paste in large blocks at the end are the ones who struggle to show their work.