How Can I Tell If My Paper Sounds Too Robotic?
I still remember the first time I read my own essay and felt nothing. Not disagreement, not pride, not embarrassment. Just… flat recognition, like I was reading instructions for assembling a chair I didn’t care about building. Every sentence was correct. Clean. Predictable. And somehow, that was the problem. That’s usually where the question starts for me now: how can I tell if my paper sounds too robotic? It’s not about grammar. Robots can be grammatical. That’s the easy part. It’s about pulse.
