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Dear Scholar, This week, we are reviewing a different AI tool to help with academic writing. Instead of helping you to edit, WriteWise helps you start—and it does so by grounding its entire drafting system in the linguistic theories of John Swales. If you’ve ever taught students to identify the “research space” or structure an introduction using Swales’ CARS model, you understand what makes WriteWise different to ChatGPT or Paperpal. Writewise is designed to create first drafts, not finished...
Dear Scholar, Finding credible papers for an unfinished manuscript can make the difference between a good and an excellent paper, and it shouldn’t take longer than writing the paper. In this week's blog post, I tested Sourcely, an AI research assistant that matches academic sources directly to your text. Just paste in your draft, and it suggests peer-reviewed papers, highlights citation-worthy text, and summarizes them. You can export these citations, download the PDFs, and save everything in...