Research

Build an AI-Assisted Academic Writing and Research Workflow

Get practical guidance for organizing research, developing a writing style profile from past papers, and using AI to plan, draft, and proofread academic work in APA style.

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Prompt template

Run these steps in order.

01
Explain how I can help analyze and emulate your writing style while keeping the tone formal but accessible, the structure logical, transitions strong, and formatting consistent with APA style.
02
Assess the proposed approach to AI-assisted academic writing: using AI to explore topics and locate sources, reviewing sources for learning, organizing findings, structuring papers, drafting with past papers as style references, and proofreading final drafts. Recommend a practical way to aggregate knowledge and use Google Drive or other preferred tools.
03
Explain how to organize chats by theme or topic with folders, and how to maintain a running document or Google Sheets tracker for research questions, progress, sources, links, PDFs, and notes. Discuss whether Notion is required for Notion AI; compare Notion with OneNote and Evernote for an Android user; explain how Mem and Tana support personal knowledge management and provide their official links; explain the P.A.R.A. Framework and node-based systems with an individual-use focus; and assess whether adopting another app is worthwhile.
04
Explain how to create a writing style profile and style guide from past academic papers, how AI can analyze collected documents, and how to ensure it refers to that profile when drafting and editing. Compare Custom GPTs with memory to regular ChatGPT, clarify what ChatGPT memory does and how to find or create task-specific Custom GPTs, and give examples of useful custom instructions and behaviors. Assess whether Perplexity Pro can help reproduce a writing style as well as support research and citations. Explain how to identify whether a system uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and alternatives to manually pasting paper excerpts. Provide a research-to-draft checklist or system and an example research-tracking document or spreadsheet template.

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