Academic writing is hard in your first language; in a second one it stacks up. ESL students and researchers have to hit academic register — hedging, formality, IMRaD structure, clean citation — while also managing second-language grammar and the rising scrutiny of AI detectors that flag non-native English more often. Most academic tools assume you already write English natively and just want it polished. Diglot assumes the opposite. You draft bilingually, native-language source in view, and cross into academic English in the same editor.
Grammar corrections are L1-aware and come with the transfer reason. The register help steers you toward hedged, evidence-matched claims — “this may indicate” where you’d otherwise write “this proves” — and away from the over-formality that outs a translated draft. Structure support keeps essays, papers, and abstracts in the right shape. The L1-aware paraphraser reworks translated-sounding passages while the citations hold.
From rough bilingual notes to something you can submit, the work stays in one place — set up for the writer who reasons in another language first.