Yes: evaluative AI checks the content of a thesis, what it claims and how it supports those claims, as a separate job from grammar. Esmond reads your paper or thesis the way your teacher will: factual errors, blind spots and inconsistencies, flagged before you submit. It adds no text to your work.
If your AI statement clearly doesn't cover what you describe elsewhere in your thesis, Esmond points it out.
A content check is a reading of what a thesis says: whether its claims agree with each other and whether the text gives enough support for them. A grammar check reads how the sentences are built. These are separate jobs, and a thesis can come through a grammar check without a single comment and still have problems with its content.
Content is what the people around a thesis care about most. Guidelines from the Editors' Association of Canada, written for doctoral theses, say this of advisors and students: “Their primary concern is the content of a thesis”. The same guidelines keep a professional editor away from it: “The editing must never affect the content or structure of the student’s thesis.”
A hypothetical example of a commentYour discussion says remote work raised productivity, but your results chapter reports no significant difference. Which of the two does your data support?
A first comment on one part of your own draft, right away and without an account.
Get a free previewEach kind reads for something different, so start with the job you need done.
| Kind of help | What it reads for | What you get back | What stays with you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generative AI, tools that write for you | Your prompt | New text | Whether you may use that text and whether it is accurate |
| Grammar tool | Spelling, grammar and wording | Corrections in your sentences | Whether your claims are true and supported |
| Human editor | Language and style, within the limits your program sets | Edits and queries | The content and structure of your thesis |
| Evaluative AI | Content: factual errors, blind spots and inconsistencies | Comments, with no new text | Whether your rules permit it, every change, language and formal requirements |
Esmond's comments sit in the margin of your own PDF. These three examples are fictional.
| Problem | A comment could say |
|---|---|
| A factual error | You date the Belmont Report to 1989. Check the year against your source. |
| An inconsistency | Your methods chapter reports 212 respondents, and Table 3 gives n = 198. Which is right, and why do they differ? |
| A blind spot | You credit the new curriculum for the rise in test results. Your methods chapter says the test also changed that year. How do you separate the two? |
A correct sentence can carry a wrong year, a sample that changes between chapters or a conclusion that goes further than the data. A grammar tool has no reason to stop at any of these, because the grammar is fine.
It works the other way around too. An early draft can have rough sentences and a sound argument. Language comments tell you little about either, so they are best left until the content is settled, when the sentences have stopped changing.
When you upload, you give your broad field and the type of paper, and the review follows both. In a public health paper, a correlation presented as a cause can draw a comment. In a history thesis, a claim about motives that rests on a single letter can. The review isn't specific to any country, university, program or course.
A content check helps most once your argument is on the page and you still have time to change it:
Esmond evaluates every assignment before you submit. It never writes it.
Esmond is an AI tool that doesn't write for you. If your course doesn't allow any AI tools, don't use Esmond for that work. If you're unsure, ask your instructor or advisor.
How Esmond works covers what you upload and who sees your paper, and the sample report shows a fictional review part by part. Can I use Esmond? lists what to check first.
Yes. Evaluative AI reads what your thesis claims and how it supports those claims, and comments without adding text. Esmond is one such tool, and the rules of your program decide whether you may use it.
Esmond doesn't. It does no language editing, so use a separate grammar tool or an editor for that, if your program permits it.
No. Esmond doesn't open your sources. It reads how you use them in your text and comments where a claim clearly lacks support there.
No. It flags passages to look at. Your advisor and committee make that decision.
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