Nowadays, AI is used in a lot of different online tools and software.

There are various writing tools that you can find on the Internet and other types of software that you can download and utilize. Among other things, one of the things that these tools can help you out with is assignment writing. You can use them to get help when writing your assignments to make things a bit easier and quicker for yourself.

In this post, let’s delve into some ways in which AI can help you with your assignments.

Top 9 AI Tools For Writing Assignments

1. By helping you brainstorm ideas

All assignments start off with the same thing, and that thing is an idea.

A good idea is the basis of a good assignment. The idea you pick for your assignment should be:

• Something new and different
• Something helpful and informative
• Something you have knowledge and expertise of

Of course, students are sometimes not given the choice to select an idea for themselves. They have to work with the one that they are provided. But in cases where the assignment idea is not specific, you can come up with one while keeping the above factors in mind.

Now, let’s move on to look at how AI can help you with that.

There are two different types of AI solutions or tools that can help you with this:

• AI assistants (tools like ChatGPT, ArticleGPT, and Google Bard)
• Or AI idea generators

You can use any one of these to come up with ideas for your assignment. We personally prefer using AI assistants because they can be given precise instructions and requirements.

Here is a screenshot where you can see us getting an idea for a science assignment from ChatGPT.

2. By helping you create outlines

Once you are done selecting an idea, the next thing that you have to do is create an outline for the assignment.

An outline is essentially a plan of the headings and sub-headings that the assignment will contain. There are many different benefits to creating an outline before starting a written assignment. For example, an outline can help you:

• Organize all your thoughts and ideas
• Write spontaneously and consistently without pausing to think
• Stay on point and do not deviate from the topic

While an assignment can be written without one, an outline does make the whole process easier.

You can have an outline created for your assignment using AI assistants as well. AI assistants are generally useful for a whole lot of different things thanks to their diverse functionality.

Here is a screenshot where we’ve asked Google Bard to create an outline for our assignment.

3. By helping you garner information

When the outline is prepared, you have to gather information and data related to all the points so that you can easily elaborate on them.

This is also something in which AI can play a helpful role.

Just as AI assistants can be helpful in giving ideas and making outlines, they can also provide theoretical and conceptual information related to the topic.

However, when using AI to garner information, there are some considerations to keep in mind.

• First of all, you should always treat the information provided by the AI tool with a degree of uncertainty. In other words, if you get some info from a tool that you want to use in your assignment, you should first check it against a reliable online source.
• You should also take into consideration the knowledge cut-off date of the tool that you’re using. For example, if you are using the free version of ChatGPT, the knowledge cut-off date is around January 2022. The tool is not aware of updated info after that date.

4. By helping you write the content out

Normally, once you are done getting the idea, creating the outline, and collecting information using AI, you should be able to write the content yourself.

However, if you feel a bit unsure of how to proceed, you can use AI to write the content and get a boost.

There are different AI content generators available on the Internet that you can use for this purpose. You can provide them with instructions on what to write and how to write it, after which they can provide you with content to use in your assignment.

Once again, as is the case with the other steps, there are a few factors and important aspects to keep in mind regarding this. For example,

• You should first double-check and confirm whether or not your institute or your instructor allows the use of such tools. It’s not strange for schools and colleges to have prohibitions on content generators and AI tools for the actual writing process.
• As is the case with garnering information, you should be somewhat wary of the information and data that the tool uses to write your assignment. You should confirm the information from a reliable source before finalizing it.
• From a personal standpoint, we are not in favor of completely delegating the writing task to an AI tool. We advise using these tools to get help in the process rather than completely relying on them.

5. By helping you improve the flow of the content

Let’s assume that you’ve written the majority of the content in your assignment by yourself. In other words, you have not used AI to generate all of the text entirely.

When you do that, due to your human style and nature, there can be some instances and places in the content that you may find to be a bit clunky. Mistakes like using the wrong wording and messing up the sentence structures are common.

Should this happen, you can improve the flow of your content by using AI tools.

How exactly? With the help of AI paraphrasers.

AI paraphrasing, better known as paraphrasing tools, is essentially made for the purpose of rephrasing a piece of content by making various changes to the words and sentences. These tools don’t alter the meaning, but they do significantly change the look of the text.

Thanks to the paraphrasing tools being based on AI, the changes that they make help to elevate the quality of the content. You can humanize AI text using the tools to improve your sentences’ flow.

Here is an example to demonstrate this:

The tool that we’ve used in the above image is called Paraphraseonline.io. The output is in the box on the right. Although the changes aren’t perfect, you can see how they make the text look better in a few places.

6. By helping you shorten the content where needed

There are different instances in assignment writing where you may find yourself needing to shorten the content that you’ve written. For example,

• You may have accidentally exceeded the set word limit for the assignment. In this case, you may want to shorten the whole assignment or parts of it to fit the demarcated length.
• You may have to provide a summary of the assignment as a separate document when submitting it.
• Or you may have to reference an earlier part of your assignment in a section later on, due to which you may have to shorten it.

Whatever the need may be, you can shorten your content using an AI tool. There are online summary generators available that can analyze and create a concise version of the provided content.

To give you an idea of what this looks like, here is an AI summarizing tool shortening the content that we’ve written so far on this post:

7. By helping you find errors and mistakes in the assignment

Errors in your assignment can exist in the form of grammar issues and spelling mistakes. These types of errors are made by just about everyone, and their presence in the content has to be taken for granted.

However, while you have to keep in mind that you will make errors in the assignment, you can’t let them go by and end up in the final draft. You have to spot and remove them before you finalize the write-up.

Once again, this is something that you can easily do with the help of online AI tools. You can use an online grammar checker or spell checker to quickly find the errors in your content and remove them.

8. By helping you check plagiarism in the assignment

Checking for plagiarism is also an important step when you’re finalizing your assignment. Plagiarism can spoil the quality of your content and make it look unreliable. Of course, other than that, plagiarism can also get you in trouble with your teachers and your institute.

You can use AI to check for plagiarism in your assignment. While non-AI tools exist for this purpose as well, using AI-assisted ones essentially makes the process more accurate. Also, with the inclusion of AI in the working of the tools, it is also possible to find content that is paraphrased from other sources rather than used verbatim.

Some tips for finding and using plagiarism checkers are as follows:

• When picking a plagiarism checker, make sure that you select one that is well-known and has a solid user base. You should also give it a few tries before using it for your assignment. These steps basically help in establishing the accuracy of the tool.
• Most tools provide a URL for any plagiarized content that they may find in the provided text. If you find some in your assignment, you can use the URL to get the citation details and create a citation to accredit the source.
• There is usually a tolerance limit for plagiarism in assignments. You should find out how much plagiarism is allowed in your assignments by your teacher. Normally, 5% plagiarism or 4% plagiarism is negligible and you can let it slide.

9. By helping you eliminate plagiarism from the assignment

Now, finding plagiarism is one thing, and eliminating it is another.

If the plagiarism detected in your assignment exceeds the tolerated limit, you have to remove it, otherwise your work can get rejected or be given a lower grade.

There are three main ways to eliminate plagiarism from content:

• You can create a citation and give credit to the source
• You can put the plagiarized text into quotation marks to show that they are not your words
• Or, you can rephrase the text to make the wording different

With AI tools, you can do both the first and the third steps on this list.

For example, with AI tools, you can quickly create citations to add to your content. There are citation generators available on the Internet, but we personally just use ChatGPT for it. Here is an example:

Other than making citations, you can also use AI tools for the rephrasing step. As we showed above, rephrasing or paraphrasing tools can be used to improve the quality of your content. But, since they do literally rephrase the text, they are also effective in plagiarism elimination.

Conclusion

With that, we bring our post to a close.

In assignment writing, there are different steps that you have to take. A lot of those steps require a lot of time and effort. By using AI, however, you can make things quicker and easier.

In the post above, we have looked at actionable ways in which AI can help with your assignments. We hope you enjoyed reading and learned something useful for yourself.

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