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Category: Academic Writing
Top 10 Mistakes of Academic Writing with AI
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Using AI as baking bread: small changes to the process can make the difference between top-notch quality and a complete failure. In this article, we...
Jenni AI Review for Students and Researchers 2026
Jenni AI is a writing assistant designed to make the writing, editing and citation-hunting steps of research easier and more-integrated. It is a combination of...
Improve Your Academic Writing with AI Detectors
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As researchers find a new balance with AI-assisted writing in their papers, it becomes important to consider how "AI" your writing sounds. Here we delve...
Adding AI to your Obsidian Notes with SmartConnections and CoPilot
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking tool, but organizing a large collection of notes is difficult. Luckily AI can help through semantic search, AI driven chats...
Paperpal AI: 2026 Review for Researchers
Paperpal is an AI writing assistant trained on academic texts. It is a highly specialized AI built into MS Word to speed up and polish...
Gemini Notebook Review 2026: AI Tool for Researchers
NotebookLM is Google's AI research tool. Analyze up to 50 academic sources and get insights from them in powerful and unique ways. Here we will...
How Reliable Are AI Detectors For Academic Text?
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Learn about using AI for academic writing, it's relationship to plagiarism and whether or not it can be reliably detected by AI detectors. We'll also...
How to Use Zotero with Word: Bibliography and AI Integrations
Paperpal vs ChatGPT vs Grammarly: Which is Better for Academic Writing?
Three tools you have likely heard of for academic writing: PaperPal, ChatGPT, and Grammarly. This post explores which one is the best AI tool for...
GPT-5 and Academic Research: Automating Writing, Synthesizing, Peer Reviewing and Data Analysis with AI
GPT-5 is a major milestone for academics, because it excels at coding, writing, synthesizing, and even critically reviewing your manuscript. In this post, I test...
How to Write an Introduction with AI: The Atomic Statement Method
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Atomic statements are small unambiguous factual statements backed by an academic paper. Combine multiple statements and you get a very good academic paragraph to craft...
How to Write a Discussion Using AI (using a mega prompt)?
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What I Learned Writing an Academic Paper with AI: 11 Lessons
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Having had to finish a paper in record time I relied heavily on AI. This transformed me as much as my workflows and my approach...
Yomu AI Review | Academic AI Writing Tool
Review for Yomu.ai an academic writing tool which combines drafting, feedback, citations, formatting, and plagiarism checks in one clean, intuitive platform. This review breaks down...
Turn Notes into a Journal-Ready Manuscript with Paperpal
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What started as a smart grammar tool is now a full academic writing assistant. Paperpal doesn’t just clean up your sentences, it helps you build...
WriteWise Review – Write Entire Drafts with AI
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Struggling to start your research paper? WriteWise offers a powerful solution by generating structured first drafts quickly. Discover how this tool can streamline your writing...
Sourcely – Find References with AI
Sourcely is an AI-powered Academic Assistant desgined to find academic sources relevant to your paper in seconds. In this post we will test it's features...
How to Train AI to Write in Your (Academic) Style
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One of the most frequently asked questions in my AI webinars is how make AI sound like you. The solution is to use AI to...
From Notes to Manuscript Using Responsible AI
This workflow starts at a few loose notes and uses AI to transform these notes into a polished manuscript without compromising on being ethical in...
Using AI for peer reviewing manuscripts
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Using AI for peer reviewing manuscripts is considered a breach of confidentiality. In this article we dive into how to use AI with finished manuscripts...
Using ChatGPT’s Canvas for Academic Writing
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ChatGPT Canvas is new feature that allows to refine and write long academic texts with ChatGPT. Unlike before Canvas allows to direct prompts at single...
The Best Way to Start Your Literature Review (Hint: It’s Not with a Question)
Most advice on literature reviews starts with finding a research questions. This is just wrong, a research question is the last thing a good literature...
Mastering Google Docs for Writing Academic Papers
A Complete Guide to Using AI for Academic Writing
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This workflow takes you from a very rough outline to a polished manuscript using a set of AI tools. Literature is researched and skimmed during...