Permission
- I read the assignment and course AI policy.
- I can name which uses were permitted.
- I asked for clarification where the rule was ambiguous.
Authorship
- The thesis and substantive judgments are mine.
- I understand and can defend every sentence.
- I did not use paraphrasing to disguise copied ideas.
Evidence
- I opened every source used for a material claim.
- Quotations and page references match the original.
- I distinguished peer-reviewed research from preprints, commentary, and web pages.
- I removed any reference I could not independently verify.
Citation and disclosure
- Every borrowed idea has the required in-text citation.
- The reference list matches the in-text citations.
- I documented the tool, date, prompts, and affected work if required.
- My disclosure accurately describes what the tool did.
Privacy and final read
- I did not upload restricted, personal, or unpublished material without permission.
- I reviewed the final document outside the AI interface.
- The final voice, claims, and level of certainty are intentional.
The one-sentence rule
If you cannot verify it, explain it, and disclose how it was produced, it is not ready to submit.