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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

Feb 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing.

Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant.

Especially if your first language is not English:

Go to paperpal.com and sign up.

Now you can either start writing in Paperpal or paste a text you have already written.

Paperpal will evaluate your writing and give you detailed suggestions to improve it.

If English is not your first language, you can write in your own language and Paperpal will translate it for you.

Here I am using Paperpal to translate a passage written in Danish.

You can also install a Paperpal add-in in MS Word.

Click on "Insert" and then "Get Add-ins."

Search for the Paperpal add-in, and press "Add."

And you will have Paperpal inside MS Word.

Paperpal will give you helpful suggestion as you write.

You can write in your own language and get Paperpal to translate it into English.

Paperpal supports following languages:

Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

Please note Paperpal's first 500 suggestions are free after which you will have to buy a subscription.

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So, if you use it judiciously, you won't have to pay any money.

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You can also download the report as a PDF.

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Mention the job you are applying for and it will optimize your resume accordingly.

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Don't type the title of a book you want to read because it might show up.

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You can learn this in 15 minutes, and it will save you hours of work.

1. Go to zotero[.]org and click on the "Download" button.

Download the app and install it on your computer.

2. Click on Zotero Connector and add it to your browser.

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