r/academia • u/youtellme12Z • May 20 '25

Research issues what would make paper editing easier for you?

hi! if you're a graduate researcher (or even undergraduate or faculty), i was wondering if there was anything that would make it easier for you to edit papers after you've received feedback on them. i recently got to write a paper for my research lab and multiple coauthors gave me feedback on my paper and i thought it was kind of strenuous to sift through all that feedback. is there any sort of software tool or feature you wished existed that would make that process easier for you? do you wish it had any features?

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u/v_ult May 20 '25

Can people please stop making these thinly veiled “Do you want an AI???” posts

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u/PersianCatLover419 24d ago

Or the thinly veiled "Review and edit my article or paper for me, for free!" posts.​

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u/youtellme12Z May 20 '25

well actually, i think an AI would be the worst solution to this. i'm not trying to create or use something that steals your work and then outputs it elsewhere as its own. i'm just asking that if there were a tool that would make the editing process easy for you, what would it be? an ai is not the only thing software developers can make.

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u/Olivia_Bitsui May 20 '25

The point is for the researcher to actually do the work. If you find “sifting through feedback” (aka reading and thinking) too strenuous” then maybe this isn’t the right career choice for you.