Academic Integrity Offices Editing and Proofreading Services

An academic integrity process decides whether a student stays. The stakes are a degree, a visa, a professional registration, sometimes a family's investment of everything they had — and the process is administered by staff carrying dozens of cases, applying regulations written before the current generation of tools existed. The letter that opens a case is frequently the first a student knows of it, and it arrives with a portal link, a regulation number and a deadline.

We edit what academic integrity and conduct offices produce — allegation and notification letters to students, procedure documents and regulations, evidence summaries and case reports, panel and hearing documentation, outcome letters and sanction explanations, appeal information and decision letters, guidance for markers on identifying and reporting concerns, guidance for students on what constitutes an offence, referencing and collaboration guidance, generative AI and permitted-use policies, contract cheating detection and investigation material, training for panel members, and reporting to faculties and to the institution's governing body. Our editors check that a student can understand what they are accused of and what happens next.

The allegation letter is where these processes most often go wrong, and the harm is procedural as much as human. A student who cannot tell exactly which passages are in question, what rule is said to have been broken, or what the possible outcomes are cannot prepare a response — and a decision reached on an inadequate notice is the one that gets overturned on appeal, months later, after the student has already withdrawn. We write these so the specific allegation is stated in the first paragraph in plain terms, with the assessment, the passages or conduct at issue attached rather than referenced; so the rule alleged to have been breached is quoted, not cited; so the full range of possible outcomes is given, including the most serious, because a student who discovers at the hearing that expulsion is available has not been given notice of it; so the deadline, the right to bring a supporter and the availability of the students' union adviser are stated together; and so the tone is neutral, since a letter written as though the finding were made is the one a student's representative will quote back.

Everything you send is treated in strict confidence, including case material and information about identifiable students. We are editors rather than academic or legal advisers, and we offer no view on any allegation, finding, sanction or regulation. What we can do is make the process documents clear and the correspondence fair to read.