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Best academic writing app: Papepral, ChatGPT, or Grammarly?

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Academic Writing Apps Comparison

Dear Scholar,

In this week’s article, I want to compare three tools for academic writing: PaperPal, which is made for academics, ChatGPT, a general-purpose tool and Grammarly, which is optimised for grammar.

It turns out there is no best tool out there. The question is, rather, when should you use which tool?

This article suggests using ChatGPT in the brainstorming and ideation phase of your writing due to its general purpose and customizability. Then move on to PaperPal, which is perfect for academic polishing, consistency, and finding the right wording for your message. Finally, you can use Grammarly as a convenient spelling and fluency checker. A 30% discount for PaperPal is included - code: ILYAPRIME30.

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The Effortless Publishing course was released last week, and the sale is now over. You can still get the course at the regular price. This course features PaperPal, as well as Google's Gemini, to enhance your academic writing and combines them with every academic paper in your reference manager for a powerful system of information retrieval and synthesis.

Find out how this system can transform your process of writing academic assignments and papers using AI and a well-thought-out collaboration workflow.

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Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

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Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic​

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