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For teachers, writing centers, and institutions

Using ReallyWrite with your students and colleagues

ReallyWrite is free, and it will stay free for individuals. You don’t need our permission to tell your students to use it.

But there are things you can’t do with a free tool that students find on their own: build a course around it, see where a group is struggling, apply your department’s own standards, or let a researcher paste in sensitive, unpublished data.

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The difference

How ReallyWrite is different from AI

It won’t write for you

ReallyWrite diagnoses and points out potential issues; it doesn’t produce text. It flags a sentence, explains the principle behind the flag, and hands the decision back to the writer. That’s a deliberate design choice, not a limitation. It means a student can use it without compromising their academic integrity.

The text never leaves your browser

Texts are analyzed entirely on the student’s own machine. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or used for training. Unpublished results, draft grant applications, and confidential material stay on the student's computer.

It gives you an objective framework

ReallyWrite is built on the principles of reader’s expectations: readers constantly predict what’s coming next, and clear writing meets those expectations. It’s not a grammar checker or an LLM. It teaches and applies a framework that professional writers use but that most schools don't teach. This framework can help your students talk about their writing more clearly with each other and with their supervisors.
On the roadmap

What we’re building for teachers and institutions

We’ve just started developing extra services for institutions, and we’re working with a few partners to build it properly rather than guessing. Things people have asked us for:

Group view — see which patterns a group struggles with the most, so you can focus on the right problem.
Assignments — assign a lesson, see who's done it, and see what they changed in their writing.
Your standards, not ours — add your grading rubric or your department’s own conventions inside the tool.
Word and Overleaf — the add-ins allow you to use ReallyWrite within your own document software.
Evidence — see before-and-after writing data for a group, useful for program review and accreditation.
Paperwork — a data processing agreement and private EU hosting.
Pilots in autumn 2026

We’re running three free pilots this autumn.

We’re running three free pilots this autumn with writing centers, graduate schools, and doctoral training programs. Free, hands-on, and we build what you actually need rather than what we imagine you need.

It's a good fit if you teach academic writing to a group, run a writing center, or are responsible for research or PhD training. Especially if you work with multilingual students whose first language is not English — that’s a group that we love to help.

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You can start using ReallyWrite in your class now

It's free, there's no sign-up, and here are five ways to use it in a lesson.

Read: How teachers can improve student writing with ReallyWrite →