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21,865Audience · researcherComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TL;DR

A free library of AI prompts for researchers to quickly translate, condense, expand, and polish academic papers without crafting instructions from scratch.

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    What it does
      Prompt library
      Writing workflows
      Paper polishing
    Writing tasks
      Translation
      Condensing text
      Expanding text
      Caption generation
    Use cases
      Polish papers fast
      Translate drafts
      Review manuscripts
      Fix AI phrasing
    Tech stack
      Prompts
      AI chat tools
      LaTeX support

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Translate a Chinese research draft into polished academic English by pasting it into an AI chat with the provided prompt.

REASON 2

Condense a lengthy paper section to fit page limits without losing key findings.

REASON 3

Expand a brief experiment description into a full Methods section with proper academic tone.

REASON 4

Remove AI-generated phrasing from a paper draft to make it sound more human and rigorous.

What's in the stack?

AI promptsChatGPTClaudeLaTeX

How it stacks up

leey21/awesome-ai-research-writingjina-ai/servehandsontable/handsontable
Stars21,86521,87221,878
LanguagePythonJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity1/54/52/5
Audienceresearcherdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
License could not be detected automatically. Check the repository's LICENSE file before use.

Wtf does this do

This is a curated, open-source collection of prompts and tooling aimed at helping people write academic research papers with the help of large language models. The README explains the motivation in plain terms: the authors noticed that prompt engineering has quietly become a hidden resource in academia, top research groups maintain polished prompt libraries while most students are figuring it out from scratch, and they wanted to share what works. The authors say they surveyed researchers at institutions like Microsoft Research Asia, ByteDance's Seed lab, and the Shanghai AI Lab, along with master's and PhD students from Peking University, USTC, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, then packaged the writing techniques those people actually use day-to-day. The repository is organised in two parts. Part one is a prompt template library covering very specific paper-writing tasks: translating between Chinese and English (and Chinese-to-Chinese rewrites), shortening or expanding text, polishing both English and Chinese papers, logic checking, stripping the so-called AI flavour out of generated text, generating titles for figures and tables, analysing experimental results, reviewing a paper from a reviewer's perspective, and choosing which model to use. Part two covers agent skills, including configuration, an overview, and example prompts, and links to a separate arxiv-translator-skill the same team built to translate ArXiv papers from their LaTeX source. The project pitch is copy-paste-ready prompts drawn from real research workflows, continuously updated. Most of the prompt content is written in Chinese.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Use this prompt to translate my Chinese paper abstract into academic English: [paste the prompt from the library and your text]
Prompt 2
Help me condense this paper section using the condensing prompt from the awesome-ai-research-writing library: [paste section]
Prompt 3
I need to expand my experiment description into a full Methods section. Here's the prompt and my current text: [paste prompt and text]
Prompt 4
Remove AI-sounding phrases from my LaTeX paper using this prompt: [paste the AI-removal prompt and your paper excerpt]
Prompt 5
Generate figure captions for my research paper using the caption generation prompt: [paste prompt and figure description]

Frequently asked questions

wtf is awesome-ai-research-writing?

A free library of AI prompts for researchers to quickly translate, condense, expand, and polish academic papers without crafting instructions from scratch.

What license does awesome-ai-research-writing use?

License could not be detected automatically. Check the repository's LICENSE file before use.

How hard is awesome-ai-research-writing to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is awesome-ai-research-writing for?

Mainly researcher.

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