AI or writing by hand? How to review a cover letter
Compare an AI draft and your own text through accuracy, relevance and control, rather than blanket success promises.
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Short answer
The writing method alone does not determine quality. An AI draft and a handwritten text need the same review: are the facts accurate, does the evidence fit the role and does it sound like you? You remain responsible for the submitted application.
A worked example
Fictional draft: Mira’s profile supports coordination, but not project leadership.
Before
As an experienced project leader, I successfully directed complex educational programmes.
After
As a project assistant, I prepared workshops, coordinated dates and documented open tasks.
Treat the draft as a proposal
AI can help organise and phrase information. It can also describe roles or outcomes more strongly than the profile supports. Review more than grammar. Compare every claim about responsibility and achievement with your own documents.
Apply the same scrutiny to your own writing
A self-written letter can also be generic or exaggerated. Mark sentences with no connection to the role. Replace traits such as “communicative” with a concrete task when you can support it. Human authorship is not an automatic quality check.
Choose based on control
Compare whether you can trace sources, edits and the document version used. Choose a process that lets you actually review the result. This comparison does not provide a measured success rate; the examples explain a review process.
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Sources and context
These fictional editorial examples explain decisions; they are not measured application results. The official guides below explain application documents and relevance to the vacancy; they do not establish success rates for our examples.