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Course 04Academic4 lessons · 28 min total

Writing Papers in the AI Era

For students and researchers. A defensible standard for using AI through the lifecycle of an academic paper — reading, outlining, drafting, paraphrasing, disclosing — without surrendering the scholarship.

Outcome
Submit work you can defend sentence by sentence, with disclosures that protect you for the rest of your career.

Curriculum
  1. Lesson 01 · Guide9 min

    Writing an academic paper with AI in the room

    Banning AI from your workflow is unrealistic. Letting it write your paper is unethical. Here's the honest middle path most researchers actually need.

    Paraphrase laundering
  2. Lesson 02 · Ethics6 min

    Citing AI assistance honestly

    Most AI-use policies leave you to write the disclosure yourself. Here is a defensible standard — and the exact phrasing for each common case.

  3. Lesson 03 · Explainer7 min

    False positives: when a detector is wrong

    Detectors get human writing wrong in predictable ways. If you've been flagged unfairly, the failure mode probably has a name — and a defence.

    AI detectorAI-generatedBurstinessCalibration
  4. Lesson 04 · Ethics6 min

    Is using an AI humanizer cheating?

    We make an AI humanizer, so treat this with appropriate suspicion — then read it anyway. Here's the honest version, including the cases where the answer is yes.