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5 ways ChatGPT can help you write an essay

ChatGPT  is capable of doing many different things very well. One of the biggest standout features is its ability to compose all sorts of text within seconds, including songs, poems, bedtime stories, and  essays . 

The chatbot's writing abilities are not only fun to experiment with but can help provide assistance with everyday tasks. Whether you are a student, a working professional, or just trying to get stuff done, we constantly take time to compose emails, texts, reports, and more. ChatGPT can help you claim some of that time back by helping you brainstorm and even compose any text you need. 

How to use ChatGPT to write: Code | Excel formulas | Resumes  | Cover letters  

Contrary to popular belief, ChatGPT can do much more than write an essay for you from scratch (which would be considered plagiarism). A more useful way to use the chatbot is to have it guide your writing process. 

Below, we show you how to use ChatGPT for both writing and assisting and include some other helpful writing tips. 

How ChatGPT can help you write an essay

If you are looking to use ChatGPT to support or replace your writing, here are five different techniques to explore. 

It is also worth noting before you get started that other AI chatbots can output the same results as ChatGPT or are even better, depending on your needs. For example,  Copilot , Perplexity , and Gemini also have access to the internet and include footnotes linking back to the original source for all of their responses, making the chatbots solid alternatives if you rather skip out on ChatGPT. 

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Regardless of which AI chatbot you pick, you can use the tips below to get the most out of your prompts and AI assistance.

1. Use ChatGPT to generate essay ideas

Before you start writing an essay, you need to flesh out the idea. When professors assign essays, they generally give students a prompt that gives them leeway for their own self-expression and analysis. 

As a result, students have the task of finding the angle to approach the essay on their own. If you have written an essay recently, you know that finding the angle is often the trickiest part -- and this is where ChatGPT can help. 

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All you need to do is input the assignment topic, include as much detail as you'd like -- such as what you're thinking about covering -- and let ChatGPT do the rest. For example, based on a paper prompt I had in college, I asked:

Can you help me come up with a topic idea for this assignment, "You will write a research paper or case study on a leadership topic of your choice." I would like it to include Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid and possibly a historical figure. 

Within seconds, the chatbot produced a response that provided me with the title of the essay, options of historical figures on which to focus my article, insight into what information I could include in my paper, and specific examples of a case study I could use. 

2. Use the chatbot to create an outline

Once you have a solid topic, it's time to start brainstorming what you actually want to include in the essay. To facilitate the writing process, I always create an outline, including all the different points I want to touch upon in my essay. However, the outline-writing process is usually tedious. 

With ChatGPT, all you have to do is ask it to write the outline for you. 

Using the topic that ChatGPT helped me generate in step one, I asked the chatbot to write me an outline by saying: 

Can you create an outline for a paper, "Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

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After a few seconds, the chatbot produced a holistic outline divided into seven sections, with three points under each section. 

This outline is thorough and can be condensed for a shorter essay or elaborated on for a longer paper. If you don't like something or want to tweak the outline further, you can do so either manually or with more instructions to ChatGPT. 

If you want ChatGPT to include links and sources throughout, you can ask it to and it will regenerate the answer using its web-browsing feature , further expediting your essay-writing process. 

3. Use ChatGPT to find sources

Now that you know exactly what you want to write, it's time to find reputable sources for your information. If you don't know where to start, you can ask ChatGPT.

All you need to do is ask the AI to find sources for your essay topic. The biggest thing to remember is to include the type of source you want, whether it be web pages, books, PDFs, research, papers, etc. 

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The specifics are necessary because when you specify web pages, ChatGPT will activate the web browsing feature and include web links in its article. If you use a very general prompt, however, it will likely default to generating its answer from its database, which isn't up to date. 

For example, I asked the following: 

"Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

The chatbot outputs links, accessible right at the top of the answer under the drop-down that says "Searched # of sites." Then, within the response, it will answer your prompt conversationally, also including sources with site names and links in parathesis. 

4. Use ChatGPT to write an essay

It is worth noting that if you take the text directly from the chatbot and submit it, your work could be considered plagiarism since it is not your original work. As with any information taken from another source, text generated by an AI should be identified and credited to the chatbot in your work.

In most educational institutions, the penalties for plagiarism are severe, ranging from a failing grade to expulsion from the school. A better use of ChatGPT's writing features would be to create a sample essay to guide your writing. 

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If you still want ChatGPT to create an essay from scratch, enter the topic and the desired length. For example, I input the following text: 

Can you write a five-paragraph essay on the topic, "Examining the Leadership Style of Abraham Lincoln through Blake and Mouton's Managerial Leadership Grid."

Within seconds, the chatbot gave the exact output I required: a coherent, five-paragraph essay on the topic. You could then use that text to guide your own writing. 

At this point, it's worth remembering how tools like ChatGPT work : they put words together in a form that they think is statistically valid, but they don't know if what they are saying is true or accurate. 

As a result, the output you receive might include invented facts, details, or other oddities. The output might be a useful starting point for your own work but don't expect it to be entirely accurate, and always double-check the content. 

5. Use ChatGPT to co-edit your essay

Once you've written your own essay, you can use ChatGPT's advanced writing capabilities to edit the piece for you. 

You can simply tell the chatbot what you want it to edit. For example, I asked ChatGPT to edit our five-paragraph essay for structure and grammar, but other options could have included flow, tone, and more. 

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Once you ask the tool to edit your essay, it will prompt you to paste your text into the chatbot. ChatGPT will then output your essay with corrections made. This feature is particularly useful because ChatGPT edits your essay more thoroughly than a basic proofreading tool, as it goes beyond simply checking spelling. 

You can also co-edit with the chatbot, asking it to review a specific paragraph or sentence and rewrite or fix the text for clarity. Personally, I find this feature very helpful. 

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How to use ChatGPT to edit your writing, step by step (using the 7 copy sweeps)

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• Takes 5 to 30 minutes, depending on the edits

How do you edit your writing with AI / ChatGPT? You’ve reached that moment. Your draft’s ready. You want to make it perfect. Except, you’ve been stuck staring at it for the past 20 minutes, paralyzed by the sheer weight of ways to dial it up to Awesome.

Enter the 7 copy sweeps .

The 7 sweeps are a simple, step by step process to edit the awesome into your writing. You quickly “sweep” over your copy, checking it against 7 criteria, in the following order:

• Clarity: Is this line clear? Is this message clear?
• Voice and tone: Does this sound like our brand? Is it right for the message?
• So what: When my prospect reads this, will they know why they should care?
• Prove it: Is there an unsupported claim – even implied – that we should prove?
• Specificity: Can I bring this moment / image to life more with specific phrasing?
• Heightened emotion: Can I make people feel more here? How about here?
• Zero-risk: Is there any way we can reduce risk here so they move forward?

The 7 sweeps are helpful… when you have the courage to use them.

But it can be tough to ‘kill your darlings’ as you sweep through your writing?

That’s where AI helps! With ChatGPT you can have your own personal assistant, walking with you step by step through the whole process. So you don’t have to guess or remember any of it.

Here’s what to do: Share your copy with ChatGPT and prompt it to guide you through the 7 copy sweeps. These are the first 2 edit recommendations it created for me when I used the AI copywriting prompts I’m about to teach you:

You can view the full chat and all 7 steps here .

Here’s how to use ChatGPT to get similar results for your business or client.

Note : At the time of writing, I typically use ChatGPT 4 as it’s a better writer than 3.5. That said these prompts work with the older model too.

Step 1: Clean up your copy

First we need to share our copy with ChatGPT. Just make sure that you only feed it with the copy you need and remove any additional elements. For clarity, in case you use CTA buttons or headlines and want ChatGPT to keep into account the visual hierarchy, just add descriptors (i.e. CTA: [button copy here]).

In my case I used an html email. So I stripped it down and extracted the copy in a blank Google document.

Step 2: Assign ChatGPT its copywriter role

Next, we’re going to tell ChatGPT to wear the shoes of a copywriter. This might not be necessary, but I’ve found that you tend to get better results if you include it.

In ChatGPT enter the following prompt:

Copy paste this prompt:

By the way, you can use this for any copy related purpose.

Step 3: Share your copy and task with ChatGPT

Now that we’re on the same page with ChatGPT and it’s in the right frame of “mind”, it’s time to share our copy and what we want it to do with it.

Use the following prompt followed by the copy you just prepared:

You might want to slightly adjust the prompt by specifying what type of copy you’re sharing (i.e. email copy, landing page copy etc.), but it’s not strictly necessary.

ChatGPT will read your copy and let you know when it’s ready for the checklist.

Step 4: Share the 7 copy sweeps checklist with ChatGPT

We’re ready, the next step is to simply give ChatGPT the series of steps it needs to take to look at your copy and recommend edits.

Use the following prompt:

ChatGPT will reply with its analysis for the first copy sweep, Clarity:

From here you can either edit the copy yourself following these points, or ask it for recommendations, like this:

Here’s an example of what ChatGPT suggested in my case:

Step 5: Share the edited copy and move to the next sweep

Whether you’ve edited the copy yourself or used ChatGPT’s recommendations, now you can share the new version.

Your assistant AI editor will review it and automatically move on to the next step in the checklist:

Step 6+: Repeat for all 7 sweeps

Now you just need to repeat the whole process for all 7 copy sweeps. Don’t worry, ChatGPT will guide you through it.

Note: ChatGPT can get lost sometimes, especially if you go through a lot of different edits. In this case when you share the edited copy and want to move to the next step, just add the following prompot after your edited copy:

Once done with all 7 sweeps, you’ll get a final message from ChatGPT confirming you’re good to go!

Again for the full chat, head over here .

I tried this AI prompt for real web copy. Here’s what happened.

I wanted to see how this worked for web copy, so I went on an AI tool’s website and extracted some of the copy.

After sharing the copy and the 7 copy sweep checklist, in a mere 2 seconds, ChatGPT went to work:

Try it out! You can pick up the chat from here and work through the other 6 copy sweeps as a test.

As you’ll find out, this series of prompts not only gives you a solid process for editing your copy, but it’s also a great way to exercise your copy editing (and attention to detail) muscle.

A final note : ChatGPT is not aware of your research or audience data. Always take its editing recommendations with a grain of salt. Go back to your research to confirm whether or not the suggestions make sense.

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How to use ChatGPT as an Editor for your Writing

Introduction to Editing with ChatGPT

Editing is a critical phase in the writing process, involving the refinement of content to enhance clarity, coherence, and overall quality. ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI language model, offers a suite of editing capabilities that can assist writers in achieving polished and professional documents.

1.1 Understanding ChatGPT's Editing Capabilities

ChatGPT's editing capabilities stem from its extensive training on diverse text data, enabling it to perform a variety of tasks that streamline the editing process. These tasks include spell checking, grammar correction, and style consistency checks. The AI can differentiate between language variants such as US and UK English, ensuring the correct usage based on the target audience. Additionally, ChatGPT can suggest rephrasing for clarity and conciseness, and even adapt the tone to suit the context of the document, whether it be formal, informal, persuasive, or descriptive.

1.2 Setting Up for Success: Preparing Your Document

Before leveraging ChatGPT's editing prowess, it is essential to prepare your document. This preparation involves ensuring that the text is complete and that the initial draft aligns with the intended message and purpose. Writers should also define the scope of the editing required, whether it's a simple proofread for errors or a comprehensive review for structure and flow. By clearly outlining the objectives and expectations, ChatGPT can be more effectively directed to perform the necessary edits, resulting in a refined and coherent final product.

Crafting Your Content with ChatGPT

Crafting content with precision and clarity is essential for effective communication. ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, offers a suite of capabilities that can be leveraged to enhance the content creation process. This section explores how ChatGPT can be utilized to generate ideas, improve document structure, and refine grammar and style.

2.1 Generating Ideas and Outlines

When initiating the content creation process, the generation of ideas and the development of a coherent outline are foundational steps. ChatGPT can assist in brainstorming sessions by providing prompts based on the given topic. For instance:

Once a topic is selected, ChatGPT can help outline the main points to cover in the article. This ensures a logical flow and comprehensive coverage of the subject matter.

2.2 Enhancing Clarity and Structure

Clarity and structure are critical for reader comprehension. ChatGPT can analyze a draft and suggest improvements to ensure the content is clear and well-organized. For example, if a paragraph is convoluted, ChatGPT can rephrase it to enhance understanding.

Additionally, ChatGPT can assist in structuring content to follow a logical sequence, ensuring that each section builds upon the previous one and contributes to the overall argument or narrative.

2.3 Refining Grammar and Style

Grammar and style are the polish on the written word, and ChatGPT can serve as a meticulous editor. It can detect and correct grammatical errors, ensuring the text adheres to language norms. Moreover, ChatGPT can adapt to various style guides, maintaining consistency throughout the document.

By integrating ChatGPT into the content creation workflow, writers can harness the power of AI to elevate their writing, ensuring it is idea-rich, clear, structured, and grammatically sound.

Advanced Editing Techniques Using ChatGPT

In the realm of content creation, the refinement process is as critical as the initial draft. Advanced editing techniques are pivotal in transforming a rough manuscript into a polished piece of writing. ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI language model, offers a suite of capabilities that can be harnessed to enhance the readability and flow of text, as well as to align content with SEO best practices. This section delves into the utilization of ChatGPT for these advanced editing purposes.

3.1 Improving Readability and Flow

Readability and flow are essential components of engaging writing. They ensure that the content is accessible and enjoyable for the reader. ChatGPT can assist in this refinement by analyzing sentence structure, coherence, and the overall narrative arc of a document.

Sentence Structure Optimization

To optimize sentence structure, ChatGPT can be prompted to evaluate and adjust complex sentences, breaking them down into simpler constructs without losing the intended meaning. For example:

Coherence Enhancement

Coherence in writing is achieved when ideas are connected and flow logically. ChatGPT can be instructed to identify and improve transitions between paragraphs and sections, ensuring a seamless reading experience. For instance:

Narrative Arc Refinement

A well-crafted narrative arc can captivate readers and keep them engaged. ChatGPT can assess the pacing and development of the narrative, suggesting modifications to enhance the storytelling aspect of the content.

3.2 Incorporating SEO Best Practices

Incorporating SEO best practices into content is crucial for digital visibility. ChatGPT can aid in optimizing text to improve its ranking on search engines, thereby increasing the likelihood of reaching the intended audience.

Keyword Integration

ChatGPT can be used to identify relevant keywords and integrate them naturally into the content without compromising the writing quality. This involves a strategic placement of keywords while maintaining the natural tone of the article.

Meta Description Creation

A compelling meta description is vital for click-through rates from search engine results pages. ChatGPT can generate concise and informative meta descriptions that encapsulate the essence of the content and include targeted keywords.

Header Optimization

Headers play a significant role in structuring content and making it scannable for both readers and search engines. ChatGPT can assist in crafting descriptive headers that incorporate keywords and reflect the hierarchy of information within the article.

In conclusion, ChatGPT's editing capabilities extend beyond basic grammar and style corrections. By leveraging its advanced features, writers can enhance the readability and flow of their content, as well as ensure it is optimized for search engines. These techniques, when applied judiciously, can significantly elevate the quality and impact of written material.

Optimizing Your Writing Process with ChatGPT

Optimizing your writing process involves leveraging tools and techniques to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. ChatGPT, as an AI language model, can be instrumental in streamlining this process. This section explores how ChatGPT can be utilized to refine revisions and edits and maintain consistency across various documents.

4.1 Streamlining Revisions and Edits

Revisions and edits are critical to the writing process, ensuring clarity, coherence, and precision. ChatGPT can assist in this phase by providing immediate feedback and suggestions for improvement. To optimize the use of ChatGPT for revisions, consider the following steps:

Initial Review : Begin by inputting your text into ChatGPT and requesting an initial review. This can include checking for grammatical errors, sentence structure, and overall flow.

Focused Edits : After addressing general feedback, focus on specific sections or sentences that may require further refinement. Ask ChatGPT to rephrase or condense these parts for greater impact.

Consistency Check : Ensure that the document maintains a consistent tone and style throughout. ChatGPT can analyze the text to confirm uniformity or identify areas of divergence.

By iterating through these steps, writers can streamline the revision process, saving time and enhancing the quality of their work.

4.2 Maintaining Consistency Across Documents

Consistency across multiple documents is essential for brand identity and reader comprehension. ChatGPT can aid in preserving a uniform voice and style across various writings. Implement the following strategies:

Style Guide Reference : Create a style guide that outlines the desired tone, voice, and formatting standards. Use ChatGPT to cross-reference your documents with the style guide to ensure adherence.

Template Creation : Develop templates for common document types. ChatGPT can help generate these templates, ensuring that each new document starts with a consistent structure.

Cross-Document Analysis : When working on a series of documents, have ChatGPT analyze them collectively to identify and rectify any discrepancies in style or terminology.

Incorporating ChatGPT into your writing process can significantly enhance productivity and ensure a high standard of consistency across all written materials.

Conclusion: Integrating ChatGPT into Your Editing Workflow

In the realm of content creation, the editing phase is pivotal. It refines the raw material into a polished piece, ready for consumption. ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, has emerged as a powerful tool in this process. Its capabilities extend beyond mere text generation, offering substantial editing assistance. This section delves into the integration of ChatGPT into your editing workflow, highlighting its utility in enhancing the quality of your written content.

Understanding ChatGPT's Role in Editing

ChatGPT's proficiency in language processing allows it to perform a variety of editing tasks. It can suggest improvements in sentence structure, offer synonyms to avoid repetition, and identify grammatical inconsistencies. By leveraging its vast database, ChatGPT can also verify factual accuracy to a certain extent, although human oversight remains crucial for nuanced validation.

Streamlining the Editing Process

Incorporating ChatGPT into the editing workflow can streamline the process significantly. By automating the initial stages of editing, such as grammar and spell-checking, writers can allocate more time to the substantive aspects of their work. ChatGPT's ability to process large volumes of text swiftly means that even extensive documents can be edited efficiently.

Enhancing the Quality of Edits

While ChatGPT can provide a strong foundation for editing, it is essential to recognize its limitations. The model may not fully grasp the intended tone or style nuances of a piece. Therefore, it is advisable to use ChatGPT as a complement to human editing rather than a replacement. By doing so, the final output benefits from the precision of AI and the discernment of a human editor.

Final Considerations

As we integrate ChatGPT into our editing workflows, it is important to maintain a balance between technological assistance and human expertise. The goal is not to diminish the role of the editor but to augment their capabilities with AI-powered tools. By embracing ChatGPT as part of the editing arsenal, we can enhance efficiency, accuracy, and overall content quality.

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The New York Times recently published two articles about the questions these new tools are raising for the college process. One explores how A.I. chatbots are upending essay-writing. The other details what happened when a reporter fed application questions from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth to different bots.

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Some teachers said they were troubled by the idea of students using A.I. tools to produce college essay themes and texts for deeper reasons: Outsourcing writing to bots could hinder students from developing important critical thinking and storytelling skills. “Part of the process of the college essay is finding your writing voice through all of that drafting and revising,” said Susan Barber, an Advanced Placement English literature teacher at Midtown High School, a public school in Atlanta. “And I think that’s something that ChatGPT would be robbing them of.” In August, Ms. Barber assigned her 12th-grade students to write college essays. This week, she held class discussions about ChatGPT, cautioning students that using A.I. chatbots to generate ideas or writing could make their college essays sound too generic. She advised them to focus more on their personal views and voices. Other educators said they hoped the A.I. tools might have a democratizing effect. Wealthier high school students, these experts noted, often have access to resources — alumni parents, family friends, paid writing coaches — to help them brainstorm, draft and edit their college admissions essays. ChatGPT could play a similar role for students who lack such resources, they said, especially those at large high schools where overworked college counselors have little time for individualized essay coaching.

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For better or worse, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a big part of our lives. It’s become integral to gathering information, researching topics, and creating written works. And frankly, not using it might put you at a disadvantage academically.

However, this AI is not flawless; there is a method to use it to help with your essays and research. Using it the right way will help you avoid plagiarism issues or inaccurate information. Here, we’ll show you how to use ChatGPT to write an essay ethically, so it comes out as a quality, factual, and original piece.

1. Draw Your Outline Without ChatGPT

Assuming you already have an idea for your project, the first thing you should do before you hop on ChatGPT’s website is to prepare your thesis and outline without using AI. It’s a vital step to making sure the core of your essay actually comes from you.

If you use ChatGPT to prompt an outline for you, it could promote idea laziness, and you will find ChatGPT’s suggestions may have replaced the ones you could have produced on your own. So, get a piece of paper or a blank word processor page and create an outline for your essay.

Also, ChatGPT will avoid controversial topics—even in an outline. Therefore, you might find yourself with an outline missing vital pieces of historical sections if you rely on it. This bias is one of the major problems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT .

2. Prompt ChatGPT to Draw a Parallel Outline

Before you begin this section, if this is your first time using ChatGPT, you should read our guide on how to use ChatGPT . It will help you with creating an account and defining its capabilities. Once that’s out of the way, you can move on to the next step.

Now that you have an original outline, it doesn’t matter how basic it looks; you can use ChatGPT to create another outline. Craft a prompt with this template:

ChatGPT’s result is far more detailed than our outline. Here, you should adopt the parts of ChatGPT’s outline you would like to integrate into your own. Combine the best of the two and flesh out an outline that will guide you best as you write.

3. Create a ChatGPT Prompt for Each Section

Now that you have an outline with sections, you can begin to hack away at it section by section. Start with your introduction, where you will include your thesis statement. Ask ChatGPT to create multiple thesis statements on your idea, and choose the one that best encapsulates the major point you’re trying to communicate in your essay.

You can do something similar for all the other sections as well. Tell the AI to generate written pieces on your section topics. Don’t forget to add that it communicates the point in the tone you want. In most cases, essays should sound academic. Therefore, our prompt for each section looked like this:

Do not just copy and paste the information it generates; the next step is a vital second part of this methodology.

4. Confirm the Information With a Reputable Source

As you begin to write, you must check if the information you’re getting from ChatGPT is indeed correct. You must do this because ChatGPT occasionally hallucinates , coming up with its own facts and making up sources when you ask it to direct you to where it got its information. In some cases, it blatantly refuses to tell you at all where it got its data.

The free version of ChatGPT is not actively connected to the internet and cannot fetch information after September 2021. If you need this functionality, then it could be time to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus —especially if this is a tool you will be using heavily for work or school.

The bottom line is that you should use a reputable source (such as a book from an authority or an official website) to support every important statement you put down. You can also learn how to use Google to fact-check information .

5. Use ChatGPT for Examples and Breakdowns

It’s counterproductive to write about ideas that you don’t even understand yourself. When you reach a part of your essay that you don’t properly understand, you should go to ChatGPT and have it broken down for you.

That’s really the one thing you can count on ChatGPT to do in this process. It has good skill in crafting useful examples and explaining complicated ideas in a form you can easily understand. A popular way of phrasing a prompt to make ChatGPT explain something complicated is adding “explain like I’m five” to your prompt.

Here we used ChatGPT to break down hip and elbow dysplasia conditions in a way that is easier to understand. And it used analogies like jigsaw puzzles to paint a clearer image of what it might look like.

6. Write the Essay Yourself

As we’ve stated earlier, under no condition should you ask ChatGPT to write your whole essay for you. Not only is that lazy and deceitful, but it could also open you up to plagiarism and submitting incorrect information.

Ensure that every line in your essay is typed with your hands. Besides, if you’re writing an academic essay where you must cite sources, you will still need to corroborate all the points you’ve made with a corresponding authority. That means you’ll have to go and fact-check everything ChatGPT has written and find a corroborating source.

This could even take more time than just writing it yourself because the AI could have hallucinated some of its facts, leading you on a wild goose chase as you try to find a citation for something that doesn’t exist.

Lastly, ChatGPT doesn’t match the nuanced knowledge of a human professional in heavily specialized fields or journals that need up-to-date information. Reading a book or article by an expert, internalizing it, and writing it in your own words will give you far better results than relying on ChatGPT.

7. Polish the Style and Citation With ChatGPT

After writing, you can paste portions of your essay and ask ChatGPT to shorten, lengthen, or optimize the style. ChatGPT is good at mimicking popular styles, and you can use that to your advantage. If you want your writing to sound a little more professional, it can help rephrase it.

If you’re having trouble with citation styles and how to integrate them into your essay, you can present your essay to ChatGPT, give it your sources, and ask it to weld them together for you.

ChatGPT Is a Tool, Not a Solution

You can’t “ChatGPT” away academic or professional work; you must use it the same way you would use a tool. Take a calculator, for instance; it doesn’t replace the mathematician but improves the mathematician. You should use ChatGPT the same way a mathematician will use a calculator: for the boring, repetitive, rote work.

Let the ideas and story come from you and your experiences. And if you want to keep using ChatGPT as a student, make sure you know what you shouldn't do.

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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Essays That Impress

Step 1: Use ChatGPT to Find and Refine Essay Topics

• Log into the service and type the following prompt into ChatGPT:

• As you can see, ChatGPT gave several good ideas for our essay. If you want to refine the idea further, you can ask the chatbot to cut out some parts of the idea and replace them. Or, you can ask for more context in certain parts. Example – “Expand more on topic number 5 and what it means.”

Step 2: Ask ChatGPT to Construct an Outline

• With the same chat open, type out “ Give me an essay outline for <selected topic>. Make sure to keep it structured as I’ll use it to write my essay .” In this case, I will use topic number 2 since it aligns with what I had in mind.

• As you can see above, we now have a structured outline for our essay. We can use this to write our essay or have ChatGPT do that job. Nonetheless, it’s a good starting point. As always, you can have the AI chatbot cut out parts of the outline or specifically add new ones depending on your requirement.

Step 3: Get ChatGPT to Cite Sources for Your Essay

Even though we have the idea and the outline, we will need to do our research for proof supporting our essay. Thankfully, ChatGPT can be of some help here. Since the chatbot is adept at moderate research, users can get a general idea of where to look for gathering information. Let’s begin doing that.

• Let’s begin asking ChatGPT for sources. With the same chat open, type in the following prompt:

• Now we have a list of 10 sources we can reference from. However, you can also see that ChatGPT mentions the year 2021 in some of them. Therefore, it’s best to use these websites but navigate to the latest pages pertaining to your essay for research. This applies to every topic, so always do it. Also, chatbots like ChatGPT have a habit of hallucinating and making up information, so do be careful.

Step 4: Have ChatGPT Write the Essay

• In the same chat, type the following prompt – “With the topic and outline available to you, generate a 700-word essay. Make sure to keep it structured and concise yet informational. Also, keep in mind my target audience is <Insert target audience> so cater to that accordingly.”
• In the middle of the essay, ChatGPT might stop and not answer. Simply type “ Continue ,” and it will finish the rest of the essay.

Step 5: Edit the Essay with ChatGPT

No matter if you have used ChatGPT to draft a complete essay or have written one yourself, you can use this step to make ChatGPT your co-editor and grammar checker. While your essay might need an initial look from a human, you can definitely use the bot to hash out the tone and add little details.

• Either open up the same chat or have your essay already in the clipboard. With that done, type out the following prompt:

Step 6: Export the Essay for Submission

However, for those who want to export the essay into a more aesthetic format, we have just the thing for you. There is no shortage of best ChatGPT Chrome extensions on the internet right now. We have one such selection linked in our list that can export selective chats onto beautiful image formats if you want to show off your essay. Check it out and let us know how you liked it.

Bonus: ChatGPT and AI Apps to Write Essays

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Ryter is another helpful AI writing assistant that not only helps with essays but all types of articles. The service is powered by a language model that gives it intelligence. Rytr comes with 40+ different use cases and 20+ writing tones for all types of written material. For those who don’t want to stick to English, it even comes with support for 30+ languages.

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5 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve, Not Replace, Your Writing

It's been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content , searching the web, writing code, and more. The AI chatbot can produce its own stories , though whether they're any good is another matter.

If you're in any way involved in the business of writing, then tools like ChatGPT have the potential to complete up-end the way you work—but at this stage, it's not inevitable that journalists, authors, and copywriters will be replaced by generative AI bots.

What we can say with certainty is that ChatGPT is a reliable writing assistant, provided you use it in the right way. If you have to put words in order as part of your job, here's how ChatGPT might be able to take your writing to the next level—at least until it replaces you, anyway.

Using a thesaurus as a writer isn't particularly frowned on; using ChatGPT to come up with the right word or phrase shouldn’t be either. You can use the bot to look for variations on a particular word, or get even more specific and say you want alternatives that are less or more formal, longer or shorter, and so on.

Where ChatGPT really comes in handy is when you're reaching for a word and you're not even sure it exists: Ask about "a word that means a sense of melancholy but in particular one that comes and goes and doesn't seem to have a single cause" and you'll get back "ennui" as a suggestion (or at least we did).

If you have characters talking, you might even ask about words or phrases that would typically be said by someone from a particular region, of a particular age, or with particular character traits. This being ChatGPT, you can always ask for more suggestions.

ChatGPT is never short of ideas.

Whatever you might think about the quality and character of ChatGPT's prose, it's hard to deny that it's quite good at coming up with ideas . If your powers of imagination have hit a wall then you can turn to ChatGPT for some inspiration about plot points, character motivations, the settings of scenes, and so on.

This can be anything from the broad to the detailed. Maybe you need ideas about what to write a novel or an article about—where it's set, what the context is, and what the theme is. If you're a short story writer, perhaps you could challenge yourself to write five tales inspired by ideas from ChatGPT.

Alternatively, you might need inspiration for something very precise, whether that's what happens next in a scene or how to summarize an essay. At whatever point in the process you get writer's block, then ChatGPT might be one way of working through it.

Writing is often about a lot more than putting words down in order. You'll regularly have to look up facts, figures, trends, history, and more to make sure that everything is accurate (unless your next literary work is entirely inside a fantasy world that you're imagining yourself).

ChatGPT can sometimes have the edge over conventional search engines when it comes to knowing what food people might have eaten in a certain year in a certain part of the world, or what the procedure is for a particular type of crime. Whereas Google might give you SEO-packed spam sites with conflicting answers, ChatGPT will actually return something coherent.

That said, we know that LLMs have a tendency to “hallucinate” and present inaccurate information—so you should always double-check what ChatGPT tells you with a second source to make sure you're not getting something wildly wrong.

Getting fictional character and place names right can be a challenge, especially when they're important to the plot. A name has to have the right vibe and the right connotations, and if you get it wrong it really sticks out on the page.

ChatGPT can come up with an unlimited number of names for people and places in your next work of fiction, and it can be a lot of fun playing around with this too. The more detail you give about a person or a place, the better—maybe you want a name that really reflects a character trait for example, or a geographical feature.

The elements of human creation and curation aren't really replaced, because you're still weighing up which names work and which don't, and picking the right one—but getting ChatGPT on the job can save you a lot of brainstorming time.

Get your names right with ChatGPT.

With a bit of cutting and pasting, you can quickly get ChatGPT to review your writing as well: It'll attempt to tell you if there's anything that doesn't make sense, if your sentences are too long, or if your prose is too lengthy.

From spotting spelling and grammar mistakes to recognizing a tone that's too formal, ChatGPT has plenty to offer as an editor and critic. Just remember that this is an LLM, after all, and it doesn't actually “know” anything—try to keep a reasonable balance between accepting ChatGPT's suggestions and giving it too much control.

If you're sharing your work with ChatGPT, you can also ask it for better ways to phrase something, or suggestions on how to change the tone—though this gets into the area of having the bot actually do your writing for you, which all genuine writers would want to avoid.

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ChatGPT has become a popular topic of conversation since its official launch in November 2022. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can be used for all sorts of things, like having conversations, answering questions, and even crafting complete pieces of writing.

If you’re applying for college, you might be wondering about ChatGPT college admissions’ potential.  Should you use a ChatGPT college essay in your application ?

By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll know much more about ChatGPT, including how students can use it responsibly and if it’s a good idea to use ChatGPT on college essays . We’ll answer all your questions, like:

• What is ChatGPT and why are schools talking about it?
• What are the good and bad aspects of ChatGPT?
• Should you use ChatGPT for college essays and applications?
• Can colleges detect ChatGPT?
• Are there other tools and strategies that students can use, instead?

We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s get started!

Schools and colleges are worried about how new AI technology affects how students learn. (Don't worry. Robots aren't replacing your teachers...yet.)

What Is ChatGPT and Why Are Schools Talking About It?

ChatGPT (short for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer”) is a chatbot created by OpenAI , an artificial intelligence research company. ChatGPT can be used for various tasks, like having human-like conversations, answering questions, giving recommendations, translating words and phrases—and writing things like essays. 

In order to do this, ChatGPT uses a neural network that’s been trained on thousands of resources to predict relationships between words. When you give ChatGPT a task, it uses that knowledge base to interpret your input or query. It then analyzes its data banks to predict the combinations of words that will best answer your question. 

So while ChatGPT might seem like it’s thinking, it’s actually pulling information from hundreds of thousands of resources , then answering your questions by looking for patterns in that data and predicting which words come next.  

Why Schools Are Concerned About ChatGPT

Unsurprisingly, schools are worried about ChatGPT and its misuse, especially in terms of academic dishonesty and plagiarism . Most schools, including colleges, require students’ work to be 100% their own. That’s because taking someone else’s ideas and passing them off as your own is stealing someone else’s intellectual property and misrepresenting your skills. 

The problem with ChatGPT from schools’ perspective is that it does the writing and research for you, then gives you the final product. In other words, you’re not doing the work it takes to complete an assignment when you’re using ChatGPT , which falls under schools’ plagiarism and dishonesty policies.  

Colleges are also concerned with how ChatGPT will negatively affect students’ critical thinking, research, and writing skills . Essays and other writing assignments are used to measure students’ mastery of the material, and if students submit ChatGPT college essays, teachers will just be giving feedback on an AI’s writing…which doesn’t help the student learn and grow. 

Beyond that, knowing how to write well is an important skill people need to be successful throughout life. Schools believe that if students rely on ChatGPT to write their essays, they’re doing more than just plagiarizing—they’re impacting their ability to succeed in their future careers. 

Many Schools Have Already Banned ChatGPT

Schools have responded surprisingly quickly to AI use, including ChatGPT. Worries about academic dishonesty, plagiarism, and mis/disinformation have led many high schools and colleges to ban the use of ChatGPT . Some schools have begun using AI-detection software for assignment submissions, and some have gone so far as to block students from using ChatGPT on their internet networks. 

It’s likely that schools will begin revising their academic honesty and plagiarism policies to address the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. You’ll want to stay up-to-date with your schools’ policies. 

ChatGPT is pretty amazing...but it's not a great tool for writing college essays. Here's why.

ChatGPT: College Admissions and Entrance Essays

College admissions essays—also called personal statements—ask students to explore important events, experiences, and ideas from their lives. A great entrance essay will explain what makes you you !  

ChatGPT is a machine that doesn’t know and can’t understand your experiences. That means using ChatGPT to write your admissions essays isn’t just unethical. It actually puts you at a disadvantage because ChatGPT can’t adequately showcase what it means to be you. 

Let’s take a look at four ways ChatGPT negatively impacts college admissions essays.

#1: ChatGPT Lacks Insight

We recommend students use u nexpected or slightly unusual topics because they help admissions committees learn more about you and what makes you unique. The chat bot doesn’t know any of that, so nothing ChatGPT writes can’t accurately reflect your experience, passions, or goals for the future. 

Because ChatGPT will make guesses about who you are, it won’t be able to share what makes you unique in a way that resonates with readers. And since that’s what admissions counselors care about, a ChatGPT college essay could negatively impact an otherwise strong application.  

#2: ChatGPT Might Plagiarize 

Writing about experiences that many other people have had isn’t a very strong approach to take for entrance essays . After all, you don’t want to blend in—you want to stand out! 

If you write your essay yourself and include key details about your past experiences and future goals, there’s little risk that you’ll write the same essay as someone else. But if you use ChatGPT—who’s to say someone else won’t, too? Since ChatGPT uses predictive guesses to write essays, there’s a good chance the text it uses in your essay already appeared in someone else’s.  

Additionally, ChatGPT learns from every single interaction it has. So even if your essay isn’t plagiarized, it’s now in the system. That means the next person who uses ChatGPT to write their essay may end up with yours. You’ll still be on the hook for submitting a ChatGPT college essay, and someone else will be in trouble, too.

#3: ChatGPT Doesn’t Understand Emotion 

Keep in mind that ChatGPT can’t experience or imitate emotions, and so its writing samples lack, well, a human touch ! 

A great entrance essay will explore experiences or topics you’re genuinely excited about or proud of . This is your chance to show your chosen schools what you’ve accomplished and how you’ll continue growing and learning, and an essay without emotion would be odd considering that these should be real, lived experiences and passions you have!

#4: ChatGPT Produced Mediocre Results

If you’re still curious what would happen if you submitted a ChatGPT college essay with your application, you’re in luck. Both Business Insider and Forbes asked ChatGPT to write a couple of college entrance essays, and then they sent them to college admissions readers to get their thoughts. 

The readers agreed that the essays would probably pass as being written by real students—assuming admissions committees didn’t use AI detection software—but that they both were about what a “very mediocre, perhaps even a middle school, student would produce.” The admissions professionals agreed that the essays probably wouldn’t perform very well with entrance committees, especially at more selective schools.  

That’s not exactly the reaction you want when an admission committee reads your application materials! So, when it comes to ChatGPT college admissions, it’s best to steer clear and write your admission materials by yourself. 

Can Colleges Detect ChatGPT?

We’ve already explained why it’s not a great idea to use ChatGPT to write your college essays and applications , but you may still be wondering: can colleges detect ChatGPT? 

In short, yes, they can! 

Software Can Detect ChatGPT

As technology improves and increases the risk of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, and mis/disinformation, software that can detect such technology is improving, too. For instance, OpenAI, the same company that built ChatGPT, is working on a text classifier that can tell the difference between AI-written text and human-written text .  

Turnitin, one of the most popular plagiarism detectors used by high schools and universities, also recently developed the AI Innovation Lab —a detection software designed to flag submissions that have used AI tools like ChatGPT. Turnitin says that this tool works with 98% confidence in detecting AI writing. 

Plagiarism and AI companies aren’t the only ones interested in AI-detection software. A 22-year old computer science student at Princeton created an app to detect ChatGPT writing, called Zero GPT. This software works by measuring the complexity of ideas and variety of sentence structures.  

Human Readers Can Detect ChatGPT 

It’s also worth keeping in mind that teachers can spot the use of ChatGPT themselves , even if it isn’t confirmed by a software detector. For example, if you’ve turned in one or two essays to your teacher already, they’re probably familiar with your unique writing style. If you submit a college essay draft essay that uses totally different vocabulary, sentence structures, and figures of speech, your teacher will likely take note.

Additionally , admissions committees and readers may be able to spot ChatGPT writing, too. ChatGPT (and AI writing, in general) uses more simplistic sentence structures with less variation, so that could make it easier to tell if you’ve submitted a ChatGPT college essay. These professionals also read thousands of essays every year, which means they know what a typical essay reads like. You want your college essay to catch their attention…but not because you used AI software! 

If you use ChatGPT responsibly, you can be as happy as these kids.

Pros and Cons of ChatGPT: College Admissions Edition

ChatGPT is a brand new technology, which means we’re still learning about the ways it can benefit us. It’s important to think about the pros and the cons to any new tool …and that includes artificial intelligence!

Let’s look at some of the good—and not-so-good—aspects of ChatGPT below. 

ChatGPT: The Good

It may seem like we’re focused on just the negatives of using ChatGPT in this article, but we’re willing to admit that the chatbot isn’t all bad. In fact, it can be a very useful tool for learning if used responsibly !

Like we already mentioned, students shouldn’t use ChatGPT to write entire essays or assignments. They can use it, though, as a learning tool alongside their own critical thinking and writing skills.

Students can use ChatGPT responsibly to:

• Learn more about a topic . It’s a great place to get started for general knowledge and ideas about most subjects.
• Find reputable and relevant sources on a topic. Students can ask ChatGPT for names and information about leading scholars, relevant websites and databases, and more. 
• Brainstorm ideas for assignments. Students can share the ideas they already have with ChatGPT, and in return, the chatbot can suggest ideas for further exploration and even organization of their points.
• Check work (that they’ve written themselves!) for errors or cla rity. This is similar to how spell- and grammar-checking software is used. ChatGPT may be even better than some competitors for this, because students can actually ask ChatGPT to explain the errors and their solutions—not just to fix them. 

Before you use ChatGPT—even for the tasks mentioned above—you should talk to your teacher or school about their AI and academic dishonesty policies. It’s also a good idea to include an acknowledgement that you used ChatGPT with an explanation of its use. 

This guy made some bad decisions using ChatGPT. Don't be this guy.

ChatGPT: The Bad

The first model of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) was formally introduced to the public in November 2022, and the newer model (GPT-4) in March 2023. So, it’s still very new and there’s a lot of room for improvement .  

There are many misconceptions about ChatGPT. One of the most extreme is that the AI is all-knowing and can make its own decisions. Another is that ChatGPT is a search engine that, when asked a question, can just surf the web for timely, relevant resources and give you all of that information. Both of these beliefs are incorrect because ChatGPT is limited to the information it’s been given by OpenAI . 

Remember how the ‘PT’ in ChatGPT stands for “Pre-trained”? That means that every time OpenAI gives ChatGPT an update, it’s given more information to work with (and so it has more information to share with you). In other words, it’s “trained” on information so it can give you the most accurate and relevant responses possible—but that information can be limited and biased . Ultimately, humans at OpenAI decide what pieces of information to share with ChatGPT, so it’s only as accurate and reliable as the sources it has access to.

For example, if you were to ask ChatGPT-3.5 what notable headlines made the news last week, it would respond that it doesn’t have access to that information because its most recent update was in September 2021!

You’re probably already familiar with how easy it can be to come across misinformation, misleading and untrue information on the internet. Since ChatGPT can’t tell the difference between what is true and what isn’t, it’s up to the humans at OpenAI to make sure only accurate and true information is given to the chatbot . This leaves room for human error , and users of ChatGPT have to keep that in mind when using and learning from the chatbot.

These are just the most obvious problems with ChatGPT. Some other problems with the chatbot include:

• A lack of common sense. ChatGPT can create seemingly sensical responses to many questions and topics, but it doesn’t have common sense or complete background knowledge.
• A lack of empathy. ChatGPT doesn’t have emotions, so it can’t understand them, either. 
• An inability to make decisions or problem solve . While the chatbot can complete basic tasks like answering questions or giving recommendations, it can’t solve complex tasks. 

While there are some great uses for ChatGPT, it’s certainly not without its flaws.

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What Other Tools and Strategies Can Help Students Besides ChatGPT?

While it’s not a good idea to use ChatGPT for college admissions materials, it’s not the only tool available to help students with college essays and assignments.

One of the best strategies students can use to write good essays is to make sure they give themselves plenty of time for the assignment. The writing process includes much more than just drafting! Having time to brainstorm ideas, write out a draft, revise it for clarity and completeness, and polish it makes for a much stronger essay. 

Teachers are another great resource students can use, especially for college application essays. Asking a teacher (or two!) for feedback can really help students improve the focus, clarity, and correctness of an essay. It’s also a more interactive way to learn—being able to sit down with a teacher to talk about their feedback can be much more engaging than using other tools.

Using expert resources during the essay writing process can make a big difference, too. Our article outlines a complete list of strategies for students writing college admission essays. It breaks down what the Common Application essay is, gives tips for choosing the best essay topic, offers strategies for staying focused and being specific, and more.

You can also get help from people who know the college admissions process best, like former admissions counselors. PrepScholar’s Admissions Bootcamp guides you through the entire application process , and you’ll get insider tips and tricks from real-life admissions counselors that’ll make your applications stand out. Even better, our bootcamp includes step-by-step essay writing guidance, so you can get the help you need to make sure your essay is perfect.

If you’re hoping for more technological help, Grammarly is another AI tool that can check writing for correctness. It can correct things like misused and misspelled words and grammar mistakes, and it can improve your tone and style. 

It’s also widely available across multiple platforms through a Windows desktop app, an Android and iOS app, and a Google Chrome extension. And since Grammarly just checks your writing without doing any of the work for you, it’s totally safe to use on your college essays. 

The Bottom Line: ChatGPT College Admissions and Essays

ChatGPT will continue to be a popular discussion topic as it continues evolving. You can expect your chosen schools to address ChatGPT and other AI tools in their academic honesty and plagiarism policies in the near future—and maybe even to restrict or ban the use of the chatbot for school admissions and assignments.

As AI continues transforming, so will AI-detection. The goal is to make sure that AI is used responsibly by students so that they’re avoiding plagiarism and building their research, writing, and critical thinking skills. There are some great uses for ChatGPT when used responsibly, but you should always check with your teachers and schools beforehand.

ChatGPT’s “bad” aspects still need improving, and that’s going to take some time.Be aware that the chatbot isn’t even close to perfect, and it needs to be fact-checked just like other sources of information.

Similarly to other school assignments, don’t submit a ChatGPT college essay for college applications, either. College entrance essays should outline unique and interesting personal experiences and ideas, and those can only come from you.  

Just because ChatGPT isn’t a good idea doesn’t mean there aren’t resources to help you put together a great college essay. There are many other tools and strategies you can use instead of ChatGPT , many of which have been around for longer and offer better feedback. 

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ChatGPT has taken the world by storm in a very short period of time, as users continue to test the boundaries of what the AI chatbot can accomplish. And so far, that's a lot. 

Some of it is negative, of course: for instance Samsung workers accidentally leaking top-secret data while using ChatGPT , or the AI chatbot being used for malware scams . Plagiarism is also rampant, with the use of ChatGPT for writing college essays a potential problem.

However, while ChatGPT can and has been used for wrongdoing, to the point where the Future of Life Institution released an open letter calling for the temporary halt of OpenAI system work , AI isn’t all bad. Far from it.

For a start, anyone who writes something may well have used AI to enhance their work already. The most common applications, of course, are the grammar and spelling correction tools found in everything from email applications to word processors. But there are a growing number of other examples of how AI can be used for writing. So, how do you bridge the gap between using AI as the tool it is, without crossing over into plagiarism city?

In fact, there are many ways ChatGPT can be used to enhance your skills, particularly when it comes to researching, developing, and organizing ideas and information for creative writing. By using AI as it was intended - as a tool, not a crutch - it can enrich your writing in ways that help to better your craft, without resorting to it doing everything for you. 

Below, we've listed some of our favorite ways to use ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots for writing. 

A key part of any writing task is the research, and thanks to the internet that chore has never been easier to accomplish. However, while finding the general sources you need is far less time-consuming than it once was, actually parsing all that information is still the same slog it’s always been. But this is where ChatGPT comes in. You can use the AI bot to do the manual labor for you and then reap the benefits of having tons of data to use for your work.

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The steps are slightly different, depending on whether you want an article or book summarized . 

For the article, there are two ways to have ChatGPT summarize it. The first requires you to type in the words ‘TLDR:’ and then paste the article’s URL next to it. The second method is a bit more tedious, but increases the accuracy of your summary. For that, you’ll need to copy and paste the article itself into the prompt . 

Summarizing a book is much easier, as long as it was published before 2021. Simply type into the prompt ‘summarize [book title]’ and it should do the rest for you.

This should go without saying, but for any articles or books, make sure you read the source material first before using any information presented to you. While ChatGPT is an incredibly useful tool that can create resources meant for future reference, it’s not a perfect one and is subject to accidentally inserting misinformation into anything it gives you.

One of the most extensive and important tasks when crafting your creative work is to properly flesh out the world your characters occupy. Even for works set in a regular modern setting, it can take plenty of effort to research the various cultures, landmarks, languages, and neighborhoods your characters live in and encounter. 

Now, imagine stories that require their own unique setting, and how much more work that entails in terms of creating those same details from scratch. While it’s vital that the main ideas come from you, using ChatGPT can be a great way to streamline the process, especially with more tedious details.

For instance, if you need certain fictional words without wanting to create an entirely fictional language, you can prompt ChatGPT with the following : “Create a language including an alphabet, phonetics, grammar, and the most common 100 words. Base it on [insert real-life languages here]” and it will give you some good starting points. However, it’s imperative that you take these words and look them up, to ensure you aren’t appropriating sensitive terms or using offensive real-life words.

Another example is useful for those who write scenarios for games, especially tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons or Call of Cthulhu . Dungeon Masters (who run the games) may often need to create documents or other fake materials for their world, but doing so takes a lot of time and effort. Now, they can prompt ChatGPT to quickly create filler text that sounds interesting or authentic but is inherently useless; it's essentially like ' Lorem Ipsum ' text, but more immersive.

When writing a story, many people will use an outline to ensure they stay on track and that the narrative flows well. But actually sitting down and organizing everything in your head in order to create a cohesive reference is a lot more daunting than it seems. It’s one of those steps that can be crucial to a well-structured work of fiction, but it can also become a hurdle. This is another area where ChatGPT can come in handy.

The key to writing an effective outline is remembering that you don’t need to have all the answers first. It’s there to structure your content, by helping you hit critical points and not miss important details in the process. While there are AI generators with a more specific focus on this topic, ChatGPT will do a good job at taking a general prompt and returning points for you to keep in mind while you research and write around that topic.

For instance, I prompted ChatGPT with “I want to write a story about a black woman in 16th century England” and it gave me a well-thought-out series of steps to help me create a story that would reflect my topic. An outline such as this would be particularly useful for those needing a resource they can quickly turn to for inspiration when writing. After that, you can begin to develop more complex ideas and have the AI organize those specifics into much easier-to-follow steps.

What makes any great story are the characters that inhabit it. Writing strong, fleshed-out characters is the cornerstone of any creative work and, naturally, the process of creating such a character can be difficult. Their background, manner of speech, goals, dreams, look, and more must be carefully considered and planned out. And this is another aspect of writing that ChatGPT can aid with, if you know how to go about it.

A basic way to use ChatGPT in this regard is to have it generate possible characters that could populate whatever setting you’re writing for. For example, I prompted it with “Provide some ideas for characters set in 1920s Harlem” and it gave me a full list of people with varied and distinctive backstories to use as a jumping-off point. Each character is described with a single sentence, enough to help start the process of creating them, but still leaving the crux of developing them up to me.

One of the most interesting features of ChatGPT is that you can flat-out roleplay with a character, whether they're a historical figure or one that you created but need help fleshing out. Take that same character you just created and have a conversation with them by asking them questions on their history, family life, profession, etc. Based on my previous results, I prompted with “Pretend to be a jazz musician from 1920s Harlem. Let's have a conversation.” I then asked questions from there, basing them on prior answers. Of course, from there you need to parse through these responses to filter out unnecessary or inaccurate details, while fleshing out what works for your story, but it does provide you with a useful stepping stone.

If you’re having issues getting the results you want, the problem could be with how you’re phrasing those questions or prompts in the first place. We've got a full guide to how to improve your ChatGPT prompts and responses , but here are a few of the best options:

• Specify the direction you want the AI to go, by adding in relevant details 
• Prompt from a specific role to guide the responses in the proper direction
• Make sure your prompts are free of typos and grammatical errors
• Keep your tone conversational, as that’s how ChatGPT was built
• Learn from yours and its mistakes to make it a better tool
• Break up your conversations into 500 words or less, as that’s when the AI begins to break down and go off topic
• If you need something clarified, ask the AI based on its last response
• Ask it to cite sources and then check those sources
• Sometimes it’s best to start fresh with a brand new conversation

Of course, many of the above suggestions apply not just to ChatGPT but also to the other chatbots springing up in its wake. Check out our list of the best ChatGPT alternatives and see which one works best for you.

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How to Write Your Essay Using ChatGPT

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It’s tempting, isn’t it? You’ve read about and probably also witnessed how quickly ChatGPT can knock up text, seemingly in any genre or style and of any length, in less time than it takes you to make a cup of tea. However, getting ChatGPT to write your essay for you would be plagiarism . Universities and colleges are alive to the issue, and you may face serious academic penalties if you’re found to have used AI in that way.

So that’s that, right? Not necessarily.

This post is not about how to get ChatGPT to write your essay . It’s about how you can use the tool to help yourself write an essay .

What Is ChatGPT?

Let’s start with the basics. ChatGPT is one of several chatbots that can answer questions in a conversational style, as if the answer were coming from a human. It provides answers based on information it receives in development and in response to prompts you provide.

In that respect, like a human, ChatGPT is limited by the information it has. Where it lacks the information, it has a tendency to fill the gaps regardless . This action is dangerous if you’re relying on the accuracy of the information, and it’s another good reason you should not get ChatGPT to write your essay for you.

How Can You Use ChatGPT to Help With Your Essay?

Forget about the much talked-about writing skills of ChatGPT – writing is your thing here. Instead, think of ChatGPT as your assistant. Here are some ideas for how you can make it work for you.

Essay Prompts

If your task is to come up with your own essay topic but you find yourself staring at a blank page, you can use ChatGPT for inspiration. Your prompt could look something like this:

ChatGPT can offer several ideas. The choice of which one to write about (and you may, of course, still come up with one of your own) will be up to you, based on what interests you and the topic’s potential for in-depth analysis.

Essay Outlines

Having decided on your essay topic – or perhaps you’ve already been given one by your instructor – you may be struggling to figure out how to structure the essay. You can use ChatGPT to suggest an outline. Your prompt can be along these lines:

Just as you should not use ChatGPT to write an essay for you, you should not use it to research one – that’s your job.

If, however, you’re struggling to understand a particular extract, you can ask ChatGPT to summarize it or explain it in simpler terms.

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That said, you can’t rely on ChatGPT to be factually accurate in the information it provides, even when you think the information would be in its database, as we discovered in another post. Indeed, when we asked ChatGPT whether we should fact-check its information, the response was:

An appropriate use of ChatGPT for research would be to ask for academic resources for further reading on a particular topic. The advantage of doing this is that, in going on to locate and read the suggested resources, you will have checked that they exist and that the content is relevant and accurately set out in your essay.

Instead of researching the topic as a whole, you could use ChatGPT to generate suggestions for the occasional snippet of information, like this:

Before deciding which of its suggestions – if any – to include, you should ask ChatGPT for the source of the fact or statistic so you can check it and provide the necessary citation.

Referencing

Even reading the word above has probably made you groan. As if writing the essay isn’t hard enough, you then have to not only list all the sources you used, but also make sure that you’ve formatted them in a particular style. Here’s where you can use ChatGPT. We have a separate post dealing specifically with this topic, but in brief, you can ask something like this:

Where information is missing, as in the example above, ChatGPT will likely fill in the gaps. In such cases, you’ll have to ensure that the information it fills in is correct.

Proofreading

After finishing the writing and referencing, you’d be well advised to proofread your work, but you’re not always the best person to do so – you’d be tired and would likely read only what you expect to see. At least as a first step, you can copy and paste your essay into ChatGPT and ask it something like this:

You’ve got the message that you can’t just ask ChatGPT to write your essay, right? But in some areas, ChatGPT can help you write your essay, providing, as with any tool, you use it carefully and are alert to the risks.

We should point out that universities and colleges have different attitudes toward using AI – including whether you need to cite its use in your reference list – so always check what’s acceptable.

After using ChatGPT to help with your work, you can always ask our experts to look over it to check your references and/or improve your grammar, spelling, and tone. We’re available 24/7, and you can even try our services for free .

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How to Get ChatGPT to Write an Essay: Prompts, Outlines, & More

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This article was co-authored by Bryce Warwick, JD and by wikiHow staff writer, Nicole Levine, MFA . Bryce Warwick is currently the President of Warwick Strategies, an organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area offering premium, personalized private tutoring for the GMAT, LSAT and GRE. Bryce has a JD from the George Washington University Law School. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 51,378 times.

Are you curious about using ChatGPT to write an essay? While most instructors have tools that make it easy to detect AI-written essays, there are ways you can use OpenAI's ChatGPT to write papers without worrying about plagiarism or getting caught. In addition to writing essays for you, ChatGPT can also help you come up with topics, write outlines, find sources, check your grammar, and even format your citations. This wikiHow article will teach you the best ways to use ChatGPT to write essays, including helpful example prompts that will generate impressive papers.

Things You Should Know

• To have ChatGPT write an essay, tell it your topic, word count, type of essay, and facts or viewpoints to include.
• ChatGPT is also useful for generating essay topics, writing outlines, and checking grammar.
• Because ChatGPT can make mistakes and trigger AI-detection alarms, it's better to use AI to assist with writing than have it do the writing.

• Before using the OpenAI's ChatGPT to write your essay, make sure you understand your instructor's policies on AI tools. Using ChatGPT may be against the rules, and it's easy for instructors to detect AI-written essays.
• While you can use ChatGPT to write a polished-looking essay, there are drawbacks. Most importantly, ChatGPT cannot verify facts or provide references. This means that essays created by ChatGPT may contain made-up facts and biased content. [1] X Research source It's best to use ChatGPT for inspiration and examples instead of having it write the essay for you.

• The topic you want to write about.
• Essay length, such as word or page count. Whether you're writing an essay for a class, college application, or even a cover letter , you'll want to tell ChatGPT how much to write.
• Other assignment details, such as type of essay (e.g., personal, book report, etc.) and points to mention.
• If you're writing an argumentative or persuasive essay , know the stance you want to take so ChatGPT can argue your point.
• If you have notes on the topic that you want to include, you can also provide those to ChatGPT.
• When you plan an essay, think of a thesis, a topic sentence, a body paragraph, and the examples you expect to present in each paragraph.
• It can be like an outline and not an extensive sentence-by-sentence structure. It should be a good overview of how the points relate.

• "Write a 2000-word college essay that covers different approaches to gun violence prevention in the United States. Include facts about gun laws and give ideas on how to improve them."
• This prompt not only tells ChatGPT the topic, length, and grade level, but also that the essay is personal. ChatGPT will write the essay in the first-person point of view.
• "Write a 4-page college application essay about an obstacle I have overcome. I am applying to the Geography program and want to be a cartographer. The obstacle is that I have dyslexia. Explain that I have always loved maps, and that having dyslexia makes me better at making them."

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Be specific when using ChatGPT. Clear and concise prompts outlining your exact needs help ChatGPT tailor its response. Specify the desired outcome (e.g., creative writing, informative summary, functional resume), any length constraints (word or character count), and the preferred emotional tone (formal, humorous, etc.)

• In our essay about gun control, ChatGPT did not mention school shootings. If we want to discuss this topic in the essay, we can use the prompt, "Discuss school shootings in the essay."
• Let's say we review our college entrance essay and realize that we forgot to mention that we grew up without parents. Add to the essay by saying, "Mention that my parents died when I was young."
• In the Israel-Palestine essay, ChatGPT explored two options for peace: A 2-state solution and a bi-state solution. If you'd rather the essay focus on a single option, ask ChatGPT to remove one. For example, "Change my essay so that it focuses on a bi-state solution."

Pay close attention to the content ChatGPT generates. If you use ChatGPT often, you'll start noticing its patterns, like its tendency to begin articles with phrases like "in today's digital world." Once you spot patterns, you can refine your prompts to steer ChatGPT in a better direction and avoid repetitive content.

• "Give me ideas for an essay about the Israel-Palestine conflict."
• "Ideas for a persuasive essay about a current event."
• "Give me a list of argumentative essay topics about COVID-19 for a Political Science 101 class."

• "Create an outline for an argumentative essay called "The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy."
• "Write an outline for an essay about positive uses of AI chatbots in schools."
• "Create an outline for a short 2-page essay on disinformation in the 2016 election."

• "Find peer-reviewed sources for advances in using MRNA vaccines for cancer."
• "Give me a list of sources from academic journals about Black feminism in the movie Black Panther."
• "Give me sources for an essay on current efforts to ban children's books in US libraries."

• "Write a 4-page college paper about how global warming is changing the automotive industry in the United States."
• "Write a 750-word personal college entrance essay about how my experience with homelessness as a child has made me more resilient."
• You can even refer to the outline you created with ChatGPT, as the AI bot can reference up to 3000 words from the current conversation. For example: "Write a 1000 word argumentative essay called 'The Impact of COVID-19 on the United States Economy' using the outline you provided. Argue that the government should take more action to support businesses affected by the pandemic."

• One way to do this is to paste a list of the sources you've used, including URLs, book titles, authors, pages, publishers, and other details, into ChatGPT along with the instruction "Create an MLA Works Cited page for these sources."
• You can also ask ChatGPT to provide a list of sources, and then build a Works Cited or References page that includes those sources. You can then replace sources you didn't use with the sources you did use.

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• Because it's easy for teachers, hiring managers, and college admissions offices to spot AI-written essays, it's best to use your ChatGPT-written essay as a guide to write your own essay. Using the structure and ideas from ChatGPT, write an essay in the same format, but using your own words. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
• Always double-check the facts in your essay, and make sure facts are backed up with legitimate sources. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
• If you see an error that says ChatGPT is at capacity , wait a few moments and try again. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

• Using ChatGPT to write or assist with your essay may be against your instructor's rules. Make sure you understand the consequences of using ChatGPT to write or assist with your essay. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
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Translated on February 13, 2023 by Tegan George. Originally published by Tobias Solis

ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI in November of 2022. Chatbots are computer programs that simulate human interactions via artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). ChatGPT has quickly become popular with students due to its ability to help answer many academic questions.

You can use ChatGPT in the following areas of your studies:

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• Getting a simple topic explained
• Academic writing

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You can use ChatGPT to prepare for exams by creating:

• easy-to-understand summaries
• multiple choice questions

How to create easy-to-understand summaries

ChatGPT can help you summarize or paraphrase text in an easy-to-understand way. This can simplify and rephrase complicated topics to help you understand them in layman’s terms.

Simply copy the text into the chat section by section and ask it to summarize/paraphrase.

Alternatively, you can use Scribbr’s free text summarizer  and  Scribbr’s free paraphrasing tool , which are specifically designed for these purposes.

Input: Please summarize the following text in a way that is easy to understand:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

Multiple-choice questions

You can use ChatGPT to create multiple-choice questions for your study material. This can help you test your level of knowledge.

To do this, ask ChatGPT to create multiple-choice questions for a block of text.

ChatGPT result: Here is a practice test with 4 multiple-choice questions about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, along with their answers:

Who is the protagonist in A Tale of Two Cities?

a) Charles Darnay b) Sydney Carton c) Charles Dickens d) Jarvis Lorry

What is the central theme of A Tale of Two Cities?

a) Love b) Redemption c) The French Revolution d) Poverty

Who is the villain in A Tale of Two Cities?

a) Charles Darnay b) Sydney Carton c) Madame Defarge d) Jarvis Lorry

What is the setting of A Tale of Two Cities?

a) England b) France c) America d) Australia

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You can also use ChatGPT to help you with your homework, for topics such as:

• Computer science
• Business administration

To do this, generate first draft solutions for the tasks given to you, and then improve them.

ChatGPT for computer science homework

For example, you can work on tasks from technical courses, such as computer science.

ChatGPT result: Here is one way to write a program in Python to calculate the sum of all numbers from 1 to N:

n = int(input(“Enter a positive integer: “)) sum = 0 for i in range(1, n+1): sum += i print(“The sum of all numbers from 1 to”, n, “is”, sum)

In this program, the user is prompted to enter a positive integer n. The variable sum is initialized to 0 and then we use a for loop to iterate from 1 to n (inclusive), adding each number to the sum. Finally, the result is printed to the screen.

ChatGPT for homework in business administration

You can also request assistance on your coursework related to economics or business administration.

Please solve the following task: The following data is given for planning the ordering policy of a material type in an industrial company:

Planning period: 180 days Total requirement: 30,000 ME Cost price: 30 GE/MU Order cost rate: 200 GE Storage cost rate: 1.50 GE/ME (related to the planning period) Interest rate: 5% (related to the planning period)

Determine the optimal order quantity, the optimal order frequency and storage range as well as the costs resulting from the optimal ordering policy as the sum of order costs and storage costs (including capital commitment costs).*

ChatGPT result:

The optimal order quantity, order frequency, and storage range can be determined using the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model. The EOQ model balances the trade-off between ordering costs and holding costs.

Ordering costs are the costs incurred each time an order is placed, and holding costs are the costs associated with holding inventory in stock over the planning period.

The EOQ model is calculated using the following formula:

EOQ = √(2DS/H)

Where: D = Total requirement (30,000 ME) S = Order cost rate (200 GE) H = Holding cost rate (1.5 GE/ME)

Plugging in the values: EOQ = √(2 * 30,000 * 200 / 1.5) = √(12,000,000) = 3464.16 ME

The optimal order quantity is approximately 3464.16 ME.

The order frequency can be calculated as the total requirement divided by the EOQ: Order frequency = Total requirement / EOQ = 30,000 / 3464.16 = 8.68 orders

The optimal order frequency is approximately 8.68 orders.

The storage range can be calculated as the EOQ divided by 2: Storage range = EOQ / 2 = 3464.16 / 2 = 1732.08 ME

The optimal storage range is approximately 1732.08 ME.

The costs resulting from the optimal ordering policy can be calculated as the sum of the order costs and holding costs.

Order costs = Order frequency * Order cost rate = 8.68 * 200 = 1736 GE Holding costs = (EOQ / 2) * Holding cost rate * planning period = (3464.16 / 2) * 1.5 * 180 = 126,601.76 GE Capital commitment costs = (EOQ / 2) * Interest rate * Cost price = (3464.16 / 2) * 0.05 * 30 = 523.25 GE Total costs = Order costs + Holding costs + Capital commitment costs = 1736 + 126,601.76 + 523.25 = 127,861.01 GE

*This task was taken from a document published by Prof. Dr. Kay Blaufus.

Note that ChatGPT sometimes makes mistakes, and it is always best to double-check if something it presents to you is correct.

You can get explanations on simple or definitional topics from your studies from ChatGPT as well.

Input: chemistry What are the main concepts of thermodynamics and their applications?

Input: English What is a phrasal verb and how is it used?

Input: history How has European colonial rule evolved throughout history?

Input: computer science How do operating systems work and what are their main uses?

Input: philosophy What are the most important concepts in the history of philosophy and how are they relevant in today’s world?

Input: psychology What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and how is it used?

You can also use ChatGPT to help you organize your academic essays and theses or dissertations . It can help to optimize your writing process in the following areas:

• development of your research question
• creating your research paper outline
• generating ideas for your literature review
• providing suggestions for rewriting or revising your text
• providing feedback on your writing
• proofreading your writing for spelling or grammar errors (you can also use a more specialized tool like Scribbr’s free grammar checker )

To learn more about how to use AI tools effectively, see our AI writing resources page.

If you want more tips on using AI tools , understanding plagiarism , and citing sources , make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations, examples, and formats.

• Citing ChatGPT
• Best grammar checker
• Best paraphrasing tool
• ChatGPT in your studies
• Deep learning
• Types of plagiarism
• Self-plagiarism
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Academic integrity
• Best plagiarism checker

Citing sources

• Citation styles
• In-text citation
• Citation examples
• Annotated bibliography

You should not trust ChatGPT’s results unconditionally. While you can use ChatGPT during your studies to clarify questions, you should always double-check the answers you receive against other credible sources , as it doesn’t always give correct information. Don’t cite ChatGPT as a source of factual information.

Yes, ChatGPT is able to create code in different programming languages like Python, Java and C++.

There are several ways you can use ChatGPT in your studies , such as if programming is part of your bachelor’s or master’s degree.

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How to Use ChatGPT for Writing a Personal Statement

For the past two years since AI tools like ChatGPT became available, concerns have arisen about their potential to be unethical, make students less capable, and facilitate cheating.

However, universities are now recognizing that AI tools can be beneficial when used properly. It’s important to use AI ethically to enhance efficiency and overcome barriers to reaching your full potential.

According to Elliot Newstead , Head of UK Student Recruitment and Outreach at the University of Leicester, AI tools like ChatGPT can be beneficial for students applying to university if used correctly.

In the following section, we’ll explore how to use ChatGPT ethically to assist with writing your personal statement.

Using ChatGPT for Brainstorming

The first way to use ChatGPT is for brainstorming ideas.

When writing a personal statement, you need to create a document that showcases why you are a good fit for a particular degree. It’s essentially a CV for university admissions, highlighting your interests, passion, credentials, and future goals related to the degree.

Start by brainstorming career ideas.

For example, if you’re applying for a psychology degree but are unsure about future career paths, ask ChatGPT:

“ What are some career paths that I can pursue with a degree in Psychology?”

ChatGPT can provide various options such as clinical psychologist, counseling psychologist, health psychologist, school psychologist, social worker and researcher. You can then choose a couple of these paths to focus on in your personal statement.

Another useful feature is to generate a list of key achievements or skills needed for your chosen degree.

For example, if you’re applying for a business management program, ask ChatGPT:

“ List my key achievements and experiences relevant to a business administration program. “

It might suggest skills like leadership, project management, and strategic planning. You could then consider gaining relevant experience, like starting a podcast, to strengthen your application.

Gather Information

An essential part of your personal statement is discussing the subject in depth. Include information that interests you and is relevant, showing your passion and willingness to learn.

For example, if you’re applying for a degree in neuroscience or psychology and have a strong interest in dementia research, you might want to mention a new method, finding, or drug that has caught your attention.

You can use a platform called R Discovery, which has a tool called Ask R Discovery . It searches through the literature and provides you with relevant research findings.

You can ask a question like:

“ What is a recent research finding in dementia research?”

The AI tool will generate a summary and provide literature for further exploration. This can be a great topic to include in your personal statement to demonstrate your genuine interest in the subject to the admissions tutor.

Structuring Your Statement

The next way to use ChatGPT is to structure and generate an outline for your personal statement.

For instance, ask it:

“Create an outline for a personal statement for a computer science degree.”

Include details about your background and experience for a more tailored outline.

Typically, a personal statement should start with a compelling hook, followed by your academic background, achievements, relevant coursework, practical experience, skills, career goals, and a strong conclusion.

You can copy this outline into your document and start writing. This method saves time while ensuring your statement remains original and ethically written.

Writing the Content

ChatGPT can also assist with writing the content of your personal statement.

For example, you might ask it:

“Explain in the first person how my internship at a tech company prepared me for a computer science degree.”

It can help draft strong paragraphs by relating your experience to the course you’re applying for, discussing practical applications, teamwork, and professional development.

Refining and Editing

Once you have a draft, use ChatGPT for refining and editing. For example, you can ask ChatGPT to paraphrase a sentence or simplify a paragraph. It can also help with critical discussion points, such as presenting challenges or opposing arguments related to your experiences.

ChatGPT can also assist with adding recent research references or discovering relevant literature to include in your statement. This can be particularly useful if you want to demonstrate a deeper understanding of your field.

I hope you find this information useful. If so, feel free to share it on your social media and let me know in the comments.

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10 Ways to Use ChatGPT for SEO Without Spamming Search

There are so many ways that you can use ChatGPT to become a more effective and efficient SEO.

1. Generate a Content Outline

2. uncover related and long-tail keywords, 3. classify keywords by intent, 4. find areas where your content falls short, 5. write engaging title tags and meta descriptions, 6. clean and polish content, 7. analyze gsc data quickly, 8. generate structured data or schema markup, 10. be careful not to spam the internet, final thoughts.

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‍ ChatGPT has taken the world by storm.

This generative AI tool has many uses, and it has clear benefits for content marketers and SEOs who want to gain an edge.

I wouldn’t recommend using ChatGPT to spam the internet with unhelpful content (more on that later). But I’m using it in several ways to improve efficiency, uncover unique data, and scale our SEO strategy faster.

Creating a content outline is a mission-critical step if you create blog posts for SEO .

Whether you’re writing the post yourself or hiring a writer, a good content outline will help you ensure that essential points are covered and provide structure for the post. Time spent creating in-depth content outlines is well spent, as you’ll save time later in the editing process.

I’ve used ChatGPT to generate quick frames for outlines that I can use as a starting point. For example, if I were writing a blog post about building an SEO strategy for a SaaS startup, I could prompt ChatGPT to give me a quick outline to work from:

Note that in my prompt, I provided ChatGPT with a link to our blog post about content outlines, which walks you through the correct format and structure .

ChatGPT returned an outline for the keyword “SaaS SEO,” using my preferred format. The outline first provides some general criteria for the writer — for example, a suggested word count — identifies the search intent, and suggests a headline:

ChatGPT goes on to outline the article, using headers effectively throughout:

It also suggests long-tail keywords , possible references, and examples, and it categorizes the blog post:

Of course, I would need to make some modifications; for example, I might not want to create an infographic for this article, or I might want to adjust the suggested word count based on what the top-performing webpages are doing today .

If I were to use this outline, I’d also make use of some of the suggestions provided in Optimize . For example, while these long-tail keywords are helpful, there are only a few, and I’d instead use keywords that I know the top-performing search results are using.

There are many keyword research tools on the market, including Positional’s Keyword Research toolset , Ahrefs , and Semrush , but if you’re on a tight budget or just getting started with SEO, ChatGPT can often provide some quick ideas.

You could prompt ChatGPT with a topic and ask it to return related keywords that might make for good blog posts:

Or you could ask ChatGPT for long-tail keywords that are served by your primary keyword . For example, when prompted, ChatGPT provided me with ten long-tail keywords, with different search intents , for the primary keyword “programmatic SEO”:

As mentioned, if you’re just getting started with SEO and don’t have a budget for a keyword research tool yet, some of these suggestions are helpful.

But if you’re looking for many long-tail keywords or LSI (latent semantic indexing) keywords, you’ll want to invest in a full-fledged SEO tool to help with this analysis.

In your keyword research process, you’ll want to categorize your keywords according to search intent, or the reason someone is searching.

There are typically four categories of intent: navigational, transactional, commercial, and informational.

You can provide ChatGPT a list of keywords and ask it to identify the intent behind each keyword:

And that is precisely what it will return to you:

You could tinker with your prompt to get the output in your desired format. You could also use a keyword research tool, as these tools typically provide intent categorization and filtering.

If you are just getting started with SEO, you might want to target keywords toward the bottom of the funnel , or those with transactional or commercial intent.

Google has gotten much better at understanding your content’s helpfulness, which plays a significant role in the search engine performance of that content. 

If you’re creating a new piece of content or working through a refresh of an existing piece, you could ask ChatGPT for suggestions on how you might be able to improve the piece’s depth and helpfulness.

For example, I like to ask ChatGPT to analyze my content and compare it with the top-ranking webpages for the keyword I’m targeting.

I might ask ChatGPT to tell me which questions one of my competitors is addressing or answering that I’m failing to address within my content.

ChatGPT then provides me with a list of tactical suggestions for ways to improve my blog post:

In this analysis, you could provide ChatGPT with multiple competitor URLs to analyze at once, which is what I typically do.

Another fun prompt is to ask ChatGPT to score your content against Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines or to provide suggestions on how you could improve it.

For example, in this prompt, I’ve asked ChatGPT to provide suggestions on ways to improve a blog post by using Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines:

ChatGPT does just that:

In this case, ChatGPT provides suggestions for improving the E-E-A-T of my article — for instance, by incorporating interviews and quotes to show credibility. That’s a good idea and likely helpful for readers, too.

Your title tags and meta descriptions are really important when it comes to your search engine rankings.

For example, by improving a page’s title tag, you might be able to increase its click-through rate (CTR) from search engine results page ( SERP s), which would lead to more traffic and likely have a positive impact on search engine rankings.

ChatGPT is really good at generating engaging title tags and meta descriptions. For example, here I’ve asked ChatGPT to write me a title tag for the primary keyword “guest blogging”:

I then asked it to write me a meta description for this keyword:

One quick note: You might need to provide ChatGPT with some rules when asking it to create a title tag or meta description, as I’ve found that it often won’t operate within best practices unless I give it direct instruction.

In the above example, I asked ChatGPT to keep the title tag suggestion to a maximum of 58 characters, and the meta description below 155 characters; otherwise, ChatGPT is likely to return text that’s too long and that will ultimately get cut off on SERPs.

While I’m a pretty big fan of Grammarly , and we work with a copy editor who polishes all of our blog posts, I’ve found that ChatGPT can assist before that handoff to our editor happens.

You can prompt ChatGPT to edit and proofread your text using a variety of different methodologies, including MLA, for example:

You can also ask ChatGPT to help improve the readability of your content — for example, using Flesch-Kincaid tests as a benchmark:

The first drafts of my writing tend to be a little wordy, and I’ve found that ChatGPT can help remove repetition and make my pieces more manageable to read. While readability is likely not a direct ranking factor , it is an indirect one.

Easier-to-read content will keep your readers engaged and scrolling through , and this likely signals to search engines that your webpage is a good one.

Google Search Console provides a tremendous amount of data, including performance metrics such as search impressions, average ranking position, and CTR.

You can export most of this data in raw format directly from GSC. Then you can prompt ChatGPT to produce insights from this raw data.

For example, if you’re looking to refresh existing content on your website or identify which keywords you might be able to better optimize for, ChatGPT can be pretty handy.

Here is just one example — in GSC, you can export your query data into a spreadsheet:

You can then prompt ChatGPT with this file to help you identify which keywords to better optimize for:

ChatGPT is then able to pick specific keywords that we might want to re-focus on and provides reasoning:

It then provides some suggestions for how we might improve these pages — such as re-evaluating the title tags for webpages that have a high number of impressions but a low CTR.

Structured data can provide Google with more context as to what your webpage is about. And when it is appropriately implemented with schema markup, you can even take up more real estate on SERPs, by getting included in rich snippets (such as a recipe rich snippet).

For example, if you want to add author schema markup to your webpage, you could ask ChatGPT to create it for you:

You can then validate this schema using Schema.org . It might take some testing. For example, when I went to validate this schema, I found that Author was not a valid type:

And after a few more iterations, I was able to get the proper schema created:

I could then add this JSON-LD snippet to a webpage's <head> section to help with SEO and provide Google with more context about the author.

9. Analyze Crawl Logs

You’ll see Googlebot’s requests in your server logs whenever Google crawls your webpage or website. 

While you can get crawling data directly from GSC , if you’ve got a large website, you might want to analyze these logs manually for better insights into which webpages are getting crawled, how often they are crawled, and which sections of your website might not be getting the attention they deserve.

Simply download the crawl logs from your server and upload them to ChatGPT. You could ask ChatGPT to determine which webpages are getting crawled most often and which webpages aren’t getting crawled as often, and to filter based on status code.

Mert Erkal did an interesting analysis where he had ChatGPT determine which webpages were getting the most hits from Google’s crawler:

Source: Mert Erkal

I’d be careful not to use ChatGPT or another AI-writing tool to create large amounts of content on your website.

Google has said mixed things about using AI-generated content; however, from my perspective, websites using AI-generated content tend to underperform (think indexing , rankings, and then, ultimately, conversions).

Google released its spam update in March 2024 ; the update targeted websites using large amounts of AI-generated content to manipulate search results.

Tools like ChatGPT are good at organizing and analyzing information, but when it comes to writing finished blog posts, the results tend to be disappointing summaries of information already published.

You want to create helpful content. Content that adds value to SERPs and deserves to exist. 

You’ll see that in most of my blog posts, I share experiences, quote experts, and provide information that you can’t get anywhere else. It’s really hard for ChatGPT to create content that aligns with Google’s guidelines on helpful content .

That being said, if you want to use ChatGPT to help write an engaging introduction or conclusion or to outline your content, I think that is totally within reason.

From writing drafts for content outlines to analyzing dense data from GSC quickly, ChatGPT can do so much more than simply write a 900-word blog post.

Maybe we should ask ChatGPT how it can help us with SEO?

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder & CEO of Positional. An experienced entrepreneur and technologist, he has founded multiple venture-backed companies and is a two-time Y Combinator Alum. Throughout Nate's career, he has built and scaled content marketing channels to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month for companies in both B2C (ex financial products, insurance) as well as B2B SaaS. Nate is also an active angel investor with investments in 45+ companies.

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Ethical chatgpt: concerns, challenges, and commandments.

1. Introduction

2. ethical concerns, 2.2. privacy and security, 2.3. transparency, 2.5. authorship and plagiarism, 3. challenges.

• Blind trust—Over-reliance on AI systems without proper validation or verification can lead to incorrect or inappropriate decision-making, potentially resulting in harm to users or other negative consequences. ChatGPT lacks a source of truth to its responses and is not designed to provide factual information in response to prompts; the over-reliance on ChatGPT in decision-making may result in unexpected harm to users. Meanwhile, checking the truth of ChatGPT responses is a challenge.
• Over-regulation (no guts, no glory)—Excessive regulation could prevent innovation and progress, as overly strict regulations could limit the ability of private and commercial users to experiment and take well-known risks with new AI technologies. ChatGPT has been demonstrating its strong capabilities since its first release. However, some countries and organizations have banned its use in their organizations because of various concerns. It is a challenge for stakeholders in the regulation of its uses. Although the regulation of the uses of ChatGPT is highly important, its over-regulation may affect the innovation progress of new technologies.
• Dehumanization—AI systems that replace human interaction and compassion in human-to-human relationships can lead to a loss of empathy and decreased satisfaction in society. The human-like responses from ChatGPT may result in the difficulty differentiating machines and humans and thus affect human-to-human relationships. It is currently still a challenge to differentiate responses from ChatGPT and humans.
• Wrong targets in optimization—AI systems that prioritize metrics that do not align with social norms can result in social dislocations. Such norms are unwritten rules or expectations that guide behavior and interactions within a community. Social norms can be formal or informal, and they can vary based on cultural, social, and historical contexts. ChatGPT is also without exception in lacking the full alignment with social norms to prioritize its performance metrics. It is a challenge to consider such social norms in ChatGPT.
• Over-informing and false forecasting—AI systems that generate too much information or provide false predictions can lead to confusion and decreased trust in the technology. Users can obtain any number of responses for one query from ChatGPT, and there is no accurate information in those responses. Therefore, it is a challenge for ChatGPT to foster trust under such conditions. AI systems that rely solely on statistical models without considering individual user circumstances can lead to incorrect or inappropriate actions. Responses from ChatGPT are randomly and statistically generated. Different responses may be generated for the same query. ChatGPT may generate incorrect responses because of its statistical characteristics, and it is a challenge to generalize its responses.
• Self-reference (AI-based) monitoring—AI systems that rely solely on themselves for evaluation, without independent oversight, can lead to a lack of accountability and decreased transparency in decision-making. As shown in Figure 4 , ChatGPT uses both supervised and unsupervised learning to train the model. OpenAI did not open much information on how ChatGPT is evaluated and monitored despite the use of the self-reference approach commonly used in the community.

4. Recommendations

4.1. stakeholders in chatgpt.

• Researchers and developers—These stakeholders are involved in developing and improving ChatGPT technologies. They may work for academic institutions, research organizations, or private companies. They may conduct research from different perspectives such as technology, law, and ethics.
• Users and consumers—These stakeholders are the end users of ChatGPT technologies. They may use ChatGPT for various purposes, such as information retrieval, language translation, and creative writing.
• Regulators and policymakers—These stakeholders are responsible for establishing legal and ethical guidelines for the development and use of ChatGPT technologies. They may work for government agencies, international organizations, or industry associations. These stakeholders collaborate closely with advocacy groups and civil society organizations, which represent the interests of various groups affected by ChatGPT technologies, such as privacy advocates, human rights groups, and marginalized communities. Advocacy groups may lobby for policy changes or raise public awareness about the risks and benefits of these technologies.
• Ethicists and social scientists are stakeholders who focus on the ethical and social implications of ChatGPT technologies. They may study the impact of these technologies on society, culture, and human behavior. Their role is to reflect on the developments and provide guidance on how to address any ethical or social issues that arise. While they may not directly influence the development of these technologies, their work helps ensure that ChatGPT technologies are developed and used responsibly.

4.2. Recommendations for Researchers and Developers

• Do not be an algorithmic pied piper and seduce and deliberately mislead your users. Take responsibility for providing background information about bias and privacy in an active way. If possible, offer a feature to explain why a particular statement was made in ChatGPT.
• Protect the vulnerable—It is important to protect vulnerable individuals who may not fully understand the disclaimer in ChatGPT. This includes children, young people, and individuals with cognitive disabilities or lower cognitive function, who may require additional protection.
• Give reasons for answers, avoid made-up sentences unless they are explicitly requested—This command is important for ChatGPT because it emphasizes the importance of providing clear and well-justified responses to users. When the ChatGPT generates an outcome or response, it should be able to explain the reasoning behind it, rather than simply providing a result without any explanation. Providing justification for a response can help build trust and credibility with the user and can also help the user better understand the bot’s thought process and decision-making. Additionally, this command emphasizes that the bot should only produce outcomes when they are deliberately requested by the user, rather than providing unsolicited responses.
• Connect ChatGPT to domain knowledge—Connecting ChatGPT models to domain-specific knowledge representations curated by a community and/or experts can greatly enhance the accuracy and relevance of the responses provided by the model. These knowledge representations can take different forms, such as taxonomies, ontologies, or knowledge graphs, and can be both human-readable and machine-readable. By including domain-specific knowledge in the training data, the model can learn to incorporate this information into its responses. This approach may require significant domain expertise to curate and annotate the training data.

4.3. Recommendations for Users

• Double-check information if users intend to use the result of a ChatGPT conversation as fact. This is a fundamental principle of reliable science as well as trustworthy journalism that emphasizes the importance of verifying information before publishing it. Before sharing any information on ChatGPT, make sure to check the source and ensure that it is credible and reliable. Avoid sharing information from unknown or unverified sources. Also be aware of your own biases and those of others in the chat. Double-check any information that seems too good to be true or aligns too closely with your own beliefs. When using ChatGPT, it is important to critically evaluate the information presented, distinguishing between fact and fiction, and considering how the responses were generated.
• Do not mix facts and fiction—To use ChatGPT responsibly, it is important to distinguish between reality and fiction and to contextualize the information obtained from the platform. While it is not necessary to rely solely on factual information, it is crucial to differentiate between statements that are part of a fictional story and those that are intended to be true. For instance, scientific statements can be presumed to be accurate, whereas statements in a work of fiction may not be. Therefore, when using ChatGPT, it is essential to put the used text into the right context.
• Do not use a result of ChatGPT that you do not understand—This rule emphasizes the importance of understanding the meaning and implications of a statement before using it. This rule can also be applied to users of ChatGPT to help ensure that the messages being sent are clear and accurately reflect the intended meaning. If you come across a technical term or jargon in a message that you are not familiar with, avoid using it in your own message. Instead, take the time to research the meaning and ensure that you understand it fully before using it.
• Do not get into “waffling” and try to convince anyone by the sheer amount of text generated by a machine—This rule emphasizes the importance of being clear and concise in communication and avoiding the use of overly complex language or convoluted sentence structures. Also, do not blind others with superficiality, which can be easily generated by ChatGPT.
• Do not assign ChatGPT any responsibility to you who has not explicitly accepted it in its terms and conditions—This rule emphasizes the importance of understanding the terms and conditions of using ChatGPT. While this may be legally necessary, it also emphasizes the importance of reading and understanding the terms and conditions of any platform or service before using it.
• Ignore emotional language—Despite its human-like qualities, ChatGPT does not have emotions and feelings, but it can sometimes fake such emotions. Emotional language from ChatGPT could be ignored.

4.4. Recommendations for Regulators and Policymakers

• Do not over-regulate—Finding the right balance between regulation and free use can be a challenging task for regulators. On the one hand, regulation can be necessary to protect individuals and ensure fair competition. On the other hand, excessive regulation can stifle innovation and limit the benefits of new technologies or services. To strike the right balance, regulators should consider a variety of factors, including the potential risks and benefits of the technology or service, the impact of regulation on users and businesses, and the potential for self-regulation or market-based solutions. In addition, regulators should engage with stakeholders, including users, businesses, and experts, to ensure that their approach is informed by a range of perspectives. Ultimately, the goal should be to create a regulatory environment that promotes innovation and growth while protecting the public interest.
• Thou shalt not concentrate information and communication in one place— Concentrating information and communication in one place can create imbalances of power and increase the potential for abuse. When one entity has exclusive control over information and communication channels, it can use that power to manipulate or exploit others. This can occur in a variety of contexts, including social media platforms, news media organizations, and government agencies but also with ChatGPT in the future. To prevent these imbalances of power, it is important to distribute information and communication across multiple platforms and systems, promoting competition and diversity. This can help to ensure that no single entity has too much control or influence over the flow of information and communication and that individuals and groups have the freedom to express themselves and access the information they need.

4.5. Recommendations for Ethicists

• Understand ethical roles fully in innovative technologies—AI ethicists are concerned with human moral behavior as they design, construct, use, and treat artificially intelligent beings, as well as with the moral behavior of AI agents [ 34 ]. Ethicists need to fully understand the roles of ethics in ChatGPT in order to not only guide the ethical development of ChatGPT but also provide guidance on the ethical use of ChatGPT more effectively.
• Collaborate with experts closely from multiple disciplines—The conversation about the ethics of ChatGPT is a philosophical discussion and needs to be elevated to a sufficiently high level from different fields. For example, legal or social experts are usually good at ethical issues related to data governance, but they may not have deep knowledge of how an AI model such as an LLM is built with a large number of parameters, as AI experts are. Therefore, ethicists need to collaborate with experts that span the fields of AI, engineering, law, science, economics, ethics, philosophy, politics, and health as well as others.

5. Discussion

6. conclusions and future work, author contributions, informed consent statement, data availability statement, acknowledgments, conflicts of interest.

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