Essay writing is a routine yet essential academic task for every student. However, it has been seen that many of them struggle to craft well-written essays. There are numerous reasons behind this. For instance, some students struggle to properly organize ideas, while some can’t write compelling arguments due to a lack of writing skills.
If you are one of them, then there is good news for you. Due to the advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are now numerous specialized tools that offer valuable assistance to efficiently complete the essay writing process.
Thinking about how? Then, continue reading this blog post till the very end.
Different Ways AI Tools Can Assist in Crafting Better Essays
Here are some of the major ways through which AI-powered tools can assist in drafting well-written essays.
Precaution: We aren’t promoting the use of AI for automated essay generation. Instead, we recommend students utilize such tools just as their “Online Assistants,” to ensure academic integrity.
- Performing Research in No Time
Research acts as a foundation for a well-written essay. The more diverse it is, the more valuable the essay you will end up crafting. That’s why it is always suggested not to start the writing process without performing proper research.
Obviously, it is a time-consuming, yet skillful task. But don’t worry, AI tools are here to make this easier. These allow students to get the research done quickly and efficiently.
For a better understanding, we are going to use an AI research tool. You just need to provide it with an essay topic, and it will come up with the latest information by referring to credible sources.
As you can see, the tool not only provided relevant information but also highlighted the probability of our essay question in terms of “Yes,” “No,” and “Mixed.” This will provide students with an idea about the perspective of the major audience on that topic, allowing them to tailor their essay writing approach accordingly.
So, by utilizing such AI-powered tools, students can simplify the process of research and focus more on the actual writing process.
- Brainstorming Ideas with Ease
Brainstorming ideas is when you deliberately try to think up new ideas, problems, solutions, etc. In simple words, it refers to deciding how you will craft the argument to perfectly address the intent of both the essay topic and audience needs.
No doubt, this will require creativity and robust critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, not every student may be able to fulfill this requirement. For them, AI-powered essay-writing tools will prove beneficial. These tools work to draft a well-written essay of any type and length on any topic.
Students can quickly skim through the generated output to get the ideas needed to initialize the writing process.
For demonstration, we provided this topic: “Does exercise improve cognition?” to the AI essay writer, and the result can be seen in the screenshot below.
The tool has generated a well-written essay draft that students can review to get all the required writing ideas. It will give them a good framework to start writing their essay.
Note: Don’t use the generated essay as it is, because it is unethical and completely goes against the guidelines of every academic institute globally.
- Refining Quality
The quality of the decision will determine whether it will be accepted or rejected. The quality factors vary from institution to institution. However, some of the most common factors are: Readability, Fluency, and Consistent Tone.
Now, there is a problem: taking care of all these elements at once usually becomes quite difficult for students. This can be especially true when the essay topic is complex. So, the probability of damaging the quality ultimately increases.
To tackle this challenge with ease, AI tools again come forward as the most suitable companion. Students can use AI paraphrasers to seamlessly refine the quality of the text in terms of word choice and sentence structuring. Both these changes elevate content clarity, fluency, and tone.
To clarify further, we rephrased a patch of text with the AI paraphrasing tool. The refined version it produced is in the attachment below.
So, with the help of such tools, students can’t only refine their own work quality but also improve their writing skills.
Note: Don’t paraphrase other’s essays using such tools, this is 100% cheating. Instead, only use paraphrasers to refine your own text quality.
- Proofreading
No matter how good you are at writing, it is important to always proofread the written essay to find and fix all types of grammatical mistakes. Obviously, doing so manually is not only boring but also has a chance that your eye may unintentionally skip some typos.
To automate the proofreading process, AI-powered grammar-checking tools are verily available online. These quickly scan the given text and highlight all the spelling, grammar, and even punctuation mistakes.
Besides this, these even provide contextually appropriate suggestions to correct typos, saving valuable time and effort.
We have attached a screenshot of one such AI grammar checker as a reference to all this information.
As you can see, the AI tool highlighted all the errors in different colors for easy identification as well as correction. So, proofreading your essay isn’t a hectic task anymore…right?
After going through all these ways, we think you will have an efficient idea of how exactly AI tools are helping students craft well-written essays.
Conclusion
For students struggling to come up with well-written essays, AI-powered tools can offer valuable assistance. These can help perform quick yet detailed research, brainstorm the best ideas on any topic, refine quality if needed, and many more.
However, we are again mentioning that such tools should be only utilized as assistants, not to automate the essay writing process.
