Personal writing analytics for each assignment you complete.
Every word, revision, and assignment provide personalized data about your writing and writing process. To access your writing navigate to your profile, then “Writing Report” to view any/all submissions where Cursive was used providing you full transparency.
Authorship
Authorship Confidence is calculating whether you wrote enough text to have text verified. A green check results for consistency measured across sessions for any session larger than ~400 characters.
There are three possible icons, none necessarily better than the others:
ℹ️ – this was your first submission.
✅ – a match! You wrote a solid submission and it’d been matched to your account.
❔ – not enough information (maybe you pasted, maybe you didn’t write enough).
Green checks are easy to accumulate… just write!
How many can you make in a row?
Effort
Effort is your exertion through the keyboard.
Effort reflects how much writing you’ve done through the text editor directly. The score ranges from 0% (you didn’t write anything in the editor) to well over 100% (imagine writing 300 words but editing it down to just 100 words just to make it perfect).
Keep in mind the assignment guidance and requirements to guide how much “effort” you need to put in. If it’s “No AI” that may be 100% or higher.
As a general rule, closer to 100% is going to reflect complete originality but will dip a bit if you’re using quotes to support your submission.
Time Writing
Time writing is the total duration of your writing activity.
It does not include long pauses greater than 30 seconds. Think of this as the true measure of how much time you’ve spent writing down your thoughts, revising, and editing.
Note, the writing process includes a lot of “inactive” time like reading, researching, and thinking through the right combination of words. Those activities can take a lot of time!
For submissions where you revisit the assignment inbox more than once, the full duration will reflect here once the system syncs.
Writing Speed
How fast can you type?
If it’s a typing test, probably pretty fast because you’re retyping text that’s provided to you. That’s called transcription.
The average typing speed of a college student is about 40 words per minute.
However! When you’re writing original text, carefully considering your word choice, doing lots of revisions, and editing you may find that a submission is well below 40 WPM.
Total Words
Total words reflects the total words that you typed.
This doesn’t include pastes, expansions by AI or Grammarly, or other text that wasn’t entered through the keyboard.
This differs from the official word count that you might have seen at the bottom of your text editor or on the submission page once you save your work which is the counted by the text editor.
Why the difference?
We’re focused on your effort through the process of writing not just the final product so
Revision %
Editing is an essential part of the writing process. Typos, misspellings, grammatical errors all require a bit of manual editing. This calculation takes your overall presses and calculates the percentage put toward editing keys (delete and backspace).
There’s no “right” answer for Revision %, but if you find yourself in the single digits and aren’t getting the marks you expected, review your writing, read it aloud, and work to make it more clear (this will increase your “revision %”).
If you’re using an automatic grammar tool that lets you click to accept, those revisions will not be reflected.
Difference
Highlights include:
Automatic grammar corrections: changes where you clicked to accept a recommendation.
Autocomplete, and generated AI: text added that wasn’t typed or pasted.
Pasted text: text added through Copy+Paste. When you paste, you may be asked to add a comment, that’ll be reflected here too.
Replay
The replay feature plays back your writing process. You can see every press and edit made manually through the keyboard.
This stream of text reflects the sequence of your creative process. If it looks messy, it should! The writing process is often messy, out of order, and a little bit chaotic as you move through the different phases of brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, and polishing.
If it looks exactly as you submitted it. Consider giving a little more time to your proof reading to make sure you’re putting your best foot forward.
Get access by navigating to your profile then “Writing Report”
