How to Make ChatGPT Writing Sound Natural

ChatGPT writing often feels recognizable before you can explain why. The grammar is fine. The transitions are polished. The paragraph seems cooperative. Yet the whole thing can read like a careful sample answer from nowhere in particular. One reason is rhythm. Another is density without texture. Every sentence behaves. Every point is announced. Very little feels discovered in the moment.

A useful first pass is subtraction. Remove some formal connectors and see whether the paragraph still holds together. If it does, the earlier logic was probably over-labeled. Then look for sentences that repeat the same claim with slightly different wording. ChatGPT is good at smooth redundancy. A human revision should compress that repetition instead of rewarding it with even more elegant phrasing.

The next pass is specificity. Real writing usually commits somewhere. It gives an example, a limit, a contrast, a detail that could not be copied into ten other paragraphs unchanged. Template-like writing avoids that risk. It stays generally reasonable and strangely weightless at the same time. Ask what the paragraph actually proves and which detail makes that proof tangible to a reader.