Here are the resources for my workshop on Streamlining Your Writing with AI.
AI
Books 📚
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- The Alignment Problem: How Can Artificial Intelligence Learn Human Values? by Brian Christian
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
Journal Articles
- Visani Scozzi, Monica, Stephann Makri, and Pranava Madhyastha, ‘“Although Powerful, It’s Not Infallible”: Investigating Academic Researchers’ Verification Challenges with LLMs’, Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (New York, NY, USA), CHIIR ’26, 22 March 2026, pp. 73–83, doi:10.1145/3786304.3787865
Apps 💻
Resources 🧭
- Local Speech-to-Text with Ratschn
- Using NotebookLM for Academic Research
- MacWhisper: a Privacy-Focused Tool for Transcribing Audio
- Streamline Your Notetaking with Readwise
- Capturing Research Notes With AudioPen
- How to Automatically Sync AudioPen Notes with Obsidian
Websites 🕸️
- The Algorithmic Bridge - Alberto Romero's thought pieces on the wider implications of AI.
- Cate Denial - Professor Cate Denial's comprehensive list of resources discussing the problems with GenAI.
- Emily Bender - Linguist and AI sceptic
- One Useful Thing - Ethan Mollicks's pragmatic but enthusiastic views of AI, with an emphasis on Higher Education.
- AI Chatbots Benchmarking Report: An Independent Assessment - The first in a series of reports on the work of Full Fact’s Public Interest AI Trust Benchmark.
- Margaret Mitchell - AI research scientist and ethicist.
Courses 👩🏽🏫
Writing
Books 📚
- Detox Your Writing: Strategies for Doctoral Researchers by Pat Thomson & Barbara Kamler
- Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks by Wendy Belcher
- Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker
- Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
- Writing Science by Joshua Schimel
Resources 🧭
- Visual Planning with Trello
- How to Use the Research Folder in Scrivener
- How to Use Scrivener Snapshots
- How to Use the Scratchpad in Scrivener
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Tomatoes: The Pomodoro Technique Revisited
- Wearing Your Writing Hat
- Building a Writing Fortress
- Using the OCAR Structure for Academic Writing
- How to Use Zotero with Scrivener
- Time Tracking for Researchers: Improve Your Project Management with Data-Driven Planning
- Improve Your Flow with Reverse Outlining
- To Write More, You Need Less Time
- How to Defeat Your Inner Critic and Keep Writing
- Overcoming Procrastination and Staying Motivated: Three Strategies for Getting on with your Writing
- Overcoming Page Fright: Three Techniques for Planning a Piece of Academic Writing
- How to Become a Healthy Academic Writer
Websites 🕸️
- Academic Phrasebank - This extensive resource includes examples to help you understand the mechanics of academic writing.
- Explorations of Style - Rachael Cayley's thoughtful blog about all aspects of academic writing.