New Effortless Writing with AI Webinar
April 11, 2026 (+ Recording)

Dear Reader,

It seems easy to "write with AI", but fairly quickly, you realise 99% of AI-written text doesn't actually meet academic standards. Typically, the text is vague, overly verbose, or just plain wrong.

Maybe you've been there?

I've had this experience as well, which prompted me to push AI to its limits, to build a system that is ethical, personal, fact-checked, and produces writing tailored to academic needs.

My main realisation is that using AI ethically and efficiently for academic writing comes down to three things: Context, Guidance & Control.

(1) Context means that your AI is aware of your previous work and the work of others, avoids hallucinations, and anchors its output in your research domain.

(2) Guidance consists of a series of prompts that guide AI to write in an academic style and to constrain what it writes. These constraints are often provided through short, factual, atomic sentences.

(3) Control is the ability to continuously fact-check the AI output, continuously refine it and create a unique, well-structured piece of writing, rather than generic "AI slop". It is an iterative back-and-forth between AI and human.

Provide context, guidance, and control, and your AI writing pipeline will produce stunning results that sound as if you wrote them, without losing an ounce of control over the content.

Are you curious to know how to integrate these three central elements into your AI writing workflow?

Join the upcoming webinar on academic writing with AI. Even if you have joined the previous version in 2025, you'll still learn a lot of new techniques. AI moves very fast these days!

Effortless Writing With AI Webinar 2026

This webinar is for all students and academics who want to write better papers in less time.

Here is what we'll cover:

• The "Atomic Statement Method" to control what AI writes
• Build an AI assistant specifically for academic writing
• Teach an AI to write in your voice instead of a generic tone
• Fact-check your writing with AI
• Skim papers with AI to deepen specific arguments
• Add clarity and flow to the entire manuscript
• Understand which parts of the paper are suitable for AI writing
• An iterative writing improvement workflow which avoids plagiarism
• Understand when not to use AI for writing
• Ethical considerations of AI writing (journals and universities)

Check the link below for more information & the date of the Webinar:

FAQ

• Discounts for lower-middle-income countries are automated. Just look at the blue banner at the top the page at checkout.
• If you attended the 2025 webinar, you can still expect a lot of new content. Since the pace of AI development is very quick, about 80% of the 2026 Webinar is new material.
• There will be a recording a few days after the webinar.
• We will use ChatGPT and a few other paid tools like Consensus. To fully leverage the workflow, you will benefit from a premium subscription to ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude. It's possible to do the whole workflow with just free tools, but results may be limited.
• Discount codes will be provided for some tools.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

​
Ilya Shabanov
The Effortless Academic​

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