LLM Academic Writing

Leveraging Large Language Models to supercharge your academic writing — from automated reviews to grammar polish.

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Featured: AIReviewer

AIReviewer — Project Page

A local, PDF-first agentic workspace for reviewing academic papers. Drop in a PDF, pick a venue rubric, and get structured multi-agent feedback in seconds — with inline highlighting, chat, and rebuttal support, all stored locally.

Capability	Details
Venue rubrics	ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML
Review engine	Gemini (primary) · OpenRouter fallback
PDF support	Browser-based viewer, text indexing, suggestion-to-sentence highlighting
Interaction	General chat, targeted rebuttal on suggestions or selected PDF text
Persistence	Local SQLite — papers, reviews, annotations, chat, rebuttals, compacted memory

Quick start:

cd AIReviewer
npm install
cp .env.example .env.local   # set GEMINI_API_KEY
npm run dev                  # open http://localhost:3000

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Other Tools

GPT Reviewer

• GPT4Reviewer — Generates structured paper reviews using GPT-4. Customize the suggestion template to match your target venue.
• GrammarChecker — Uses GPT to catch awkward phrasing and unnatural English, a useful complement to spellcheckers like Grammarly or Writer for non-native speakers.

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LLM Options

General-purpose

Model	Notes
ChatGPT 4o	Most widely used
Llama 3-8B	Open weights, HF inference API
Octopus-v2	Lightweight on-device option

Academic corpus

Model	Notes
GALACTICA	Scientific language model
BLOOM	Autoregressive LLM, HF inference API

Document understanding

• Scispace — paper Q&A and explanation
• LayoutLM — document QA with layout awareness

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Prompt Engineering

OpenAI's guide: Six strategies for better results

Suggestion template for our tools: suggestion_template.yml

Useful prompts for academic revision:

Check the grammar, make my language more professional, and sound like a native speaker.

Summarize this paper in one sentence. List key insights and lessons learned.
Generate 3–5 questions for the authors. Suggest 3–5 future research directions.
List at least 5 relevant references. Paper: <paste here>

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IDE & Browser Extensions

Tool	Platform	Description
OverleafCopilot	Chrome	GPT-assisted writing inside Overleaf
SciGPT	Chrome	Academic Q&A with curated prompts
GitHub Copilot	VS Code	Code and doc writing assistant
Bito	VS Code	GPT-powered code and writing help

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Research & Reading

• Using LLMs as peer reviewers for revising essays
• LLM scientific feedback experiment — compare LLM reviews with real peer reviews
• ReviewerGPT? (arXiv)

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Citation

@misc{yao2024llmwriting,
    author = {Dixi Yao},
    title  = {{LLM}s for Academic Writing},
    url    = {https://github.com/dixiyao/LLM-Academic-Writing},
    year   = {2024}
}

License: Apache 2.0

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Contributing

Contributions and collaborations are welcome — pull requests and suggestions are appreciated.