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TexGPT: Harness the power of ChatGPT in Overleaf

TexGPT, a new feature in Writefull for Overleaf, speeds up your LaTeX writing. It harnesses GPT-3 and Writefull's AI to help you with... well, anything.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
3 min read
Academic writing

Why Writefull’s Academizer is a game changer

Writefull’s Academizer helps by automatically rewriting your informal sentences into academic ones. Through training our language models on real academic output, we help you turn colloquial text into eloquent language that is appropriate for science.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
1 min read
Academic writing

Do I plagiarize when I use Writefull, ChatGPT, or other AI language tools?

The discussion about using AI in education is more alive than ever. Many students wonder if using tools like ChatGPT or Writefull constitutes plagiarism. This posts tells you more!

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Academic writing

How to use Writefull and ChatGPT for your academic writing

ChatGPT can output sentences, rewrites, or entire texts. How can ChatGPT benefit your academic writing? And how does it differ from Writefull?

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Product update

Writefull's Academizer makes your informal language academic!

Writefull's Academizer rewrites your informal sentences into academic ones. This is Writefull’s fourth AI-based widget, following the Paraphraser, Title Generator, and Abstract Generator.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Academic writing

Why is academic writing so hard… and how can Writefull help

Writing a scientific paper is undoubtedly challenging. In this blog post, we highlight the most common problems people face, and how Writefull can help overcome them.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
3 min read
Academic publishing

How to increase your chances of getting published

Getting your work out there is hard. And while research and writing are the hardest parts, they’re not the end of the story. In this blog post, we take you through 10 tips to maximize your chances of getting your paper published.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
3 min read
API

Writefull Language API integrated by Charlesworth

Charlesworth Group has integrated Writefull’s Language API into their author services workflow. Writefull’s AI-based language check is used to advise authors on whether their manuscript needs language editing.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Product update

The Abstract Generator is now available in Writefull for Overleaf!

Writefull's popular widget, the Abstract Generator, has been shipped to Writefull for Overleaf. It parses your LaTeX source code and generates an abstract for your manuscript in seconds.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Publishers

British Ecological Society integrates Writefull into submission system

By integrating Writefull for authors, the British Ecological Society joins other publishers, such as Hindawi, Cambridge University Press, and Karger, in an effort to reduce the language barrier for authors.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Writefull

New! Writefull's automated Abstract Generator

Time for a new Writefull widget! Today, we release the Abstract Generator. This clever widget uses AI to automatically generate an abstract for your paper.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs or one-word verbs: Which one to choose?

‘Performed an experiment’ or ‘carried out an experiment’? ‘The authors point out’ or ‘the authors highlight’? Choosing between a phrasal verb and a one-word equivalent can be tricky. In this post, we give you some tips to help.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
2 min read
Product update

Writefull's Paraphraser and Title Generator accessible from LaTeX source code in Overleaf

It is now even easier to use the Paraphraser and Title Generator in Writefull for Overleaf. As of today, the two widgets can be used within your LaTeX source code directly.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Publishers

Writefull launches new services to further automatize publishers’ workflow

Writefull has expanded its set of services for publishers, now offering APIs for automatic manuscript categorization and metadata extraction. Early adopters are Hindawi and ACS. The Writefull APIs allow for significant savings throughout the publishing workflow.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
2 min read
Publishers

Writefull’s API used by ACS for language evaluation quality control after editing

ACS (American Chemical Society) has integrated Writefull’s Manuscript Categorization API to automatically evaluate the language in manuscripts after copyediting. This is one of two uses of this API by ACS; the other use case is for language quality assessment before copyediting.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Corpus analysis

These are the 100 most frequent LaTeX commands

Many Writefull users write in LaTeX - using Writefull for Overleaf to revise their work. For this analysis, we parsed 300K papers from arXiv to explore what LaTeX commands are used most often in research writing.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
6 min read
Corpus analysis

How to use phrasal verbs in academic writing

Avoiding phrasal verbs in academic writing is a mistake. But it’s best to know how to use them, in particular which words they combine with. In this analysis, we look at the most commonly used noun-phrasal verb-noun combinations in scientific texts.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
1 min read
Corpus analysis

How to present data and statistics in your paper

In most academic fields, presenting stats and data is key. Words like 'values', 'equations', 'numbers', and 'tests' are common in theses and papers. But how do you use these words? In this analysis, we explore what phrases authors use most often when they present data and statistics.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Publishers

Writefull delivers metadata service to ACS

As of this month, American Chemical Society (ACS) is using Writefull’s Metadata API to automate aspects of manuscript review. Writefull’s Metadata API leverages state-of-the-art NLP to facilitate the (automated) review of manuscripts, offering a scalable, time-saving solution to publishers.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
2 min read
Writefull

How to integrate Writefull into a self-hosted instance of Overleaf

As more and more researchers discover Writefull for Overleaf, we're often asked how to use Writefull on a self-hosted Overleaf instance. It's certainly possible! In this post, we tell you how to set it up.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
2 min read
Writefull

Writefull for Overleaf just got 10x better

We are thrilled to announce that we've launched a new version of Writefull for Overleaf! It gives you the advanced Full Edit mode, a US-UK spelling toggle, compatibility with Firefox, and an improved UI.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Writefull

Scholardle: Wordle for researchers

Try Scholardle, Writefull's academic twist on the open source version of the word guessing game Wordle.

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
1 min read
Corpus analysis

‘Statistically significant differences’ and other research observations

In this blog post, we show results of an analysis of the most frequent adverb-adjective-noun sequences in scientific texts (e.g. 'statistically significant differences').

  • Mélodie Garnier
    Mélodie Garnier
2 min read
Publishers

ACS integrates Writefull’s Manuscript Categorization API for post-acceptance classification

ACS (American Chemical Society) has integrated Writefull's Manuscript Categorization service into their publishing workflow. ACS uses it to automatically classify all of their accepted manuscripts by language quality.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
1 min read
Publishers

Hindawi uses Writefull’s Metadata API for structural checks

We are happy to announce that Writefull has extended its pre-submission services for open access publisher Hindawi. In addition to the Writefull Revise language check that was already in place, Hindawi now offers authors structural checks on their manuscripts.

  • Hilde van Zeeland
    Hilde van Zeeland
2 min read

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