Italian university work has its own long-form traditions, and that matters when you read an AI score. Winston AI checks Italian text for signs of machine writing and highlights sentences one by one. This page covers the tesi di laurea, the formal Lei, and how to review a result fairly before you raise it with anyone.
The tesi di laurea
Most Italian degrees end with a tesi: a shorter one for the laurea triennale and a longer one for the laurea magistrale. Students spend months on it with a relatore, and the prose usually follows academic conventions: long periods built from subordinate clauses, the impersonal si, careful hedging with the subjunctive. None of that is a sign of AI. It's how Italian students are taught to write.
Where default AI output tends to show is in generic framing: an introduction that could open any thesis, chapter summaries that restate the obvious, a conclusion about the topic's importance for society. When Winston AI highlights passages like these in red, ask the student to talk you through them. When yellow appears on a chapter the relatore helped revise, it may simply be editing.
Before you raise it with a student
- Ask for drafts and any notes from meetings with the relatore
- Compare the flagged chapter with the student's earlier coursework
- Check that sources cited in red passages exist and say what the text claims they say
Winston AI detects Italian automatically, so paste text as-is, whether it's a thesis chapter or a column from a Ticino newspaper. For the conversation itself, see how to talk to a student about suspected AI use.