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Generative AI for academic and scientific writing mastery (Udemy.com)

Leverage ChatGPT for precision writing, enhanced communication, and accelerated academic performance

Created by: Mike X Cohen

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • AI-assisted writing
  • Improve grammar
  • Write for multiple audiences (scientific, general, journalistic, press releases)
  • ChatGPT
  • Prompt engineering

How it compares

Against the other 205 rated Udemy courses in Artificial Intelligence on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 40% of them
  • Reviews510#100 of 206 by number of reviews
  • Length3.4 hoursshorter than 58% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 89% of them

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Course Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Reshaping Academic & Scientific Writing

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had far-reaching implications across various fields, including academic and scientific writing. AI, especially tools like ChatGPT, is revolutionizing the way we conduct and communicate research. This exciting development opens up new avenues for students, PhD candidates, postdocs, academics, professors, AI-enthusiasts, writers, and copyeditors to enhance their research and writing abilities.


You Need to Master AI-Assisted Writing

As a researcher or academic, you know the importance of clear, concise, and compelling writing. AI-assisted writing tools like ChatGPT can elevate your writing skills, enabling you to create high-quality academic and scientific documents with ease. Mastering these tools can help you craft compelling research questions, generate structured outlines, and write clear, persuasive text. It can also help you stay abreast of the latest developments in your field, future-proofing your research skills.


Introducing ChatGPT: A Groundbreaking AI Tool for Academic & Scientific Writing

ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI based on deep learning, is a tool that is revolutionizing the way we approach academic and scientific writing. By using ChatGPT, you can harness AI to refine your research questions, facilitate your writing process, share your research effectively, and much more. This course will guide you through the process of effectively integrating ChatGPT into your research workflow.


Course Overview

This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and practical skills needed to leverage AI in your writing and research.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Engineer prompts to get the most out of ChatGPT

  • Refine your research questions using AI

  • Write more effectively with AI-assistance

  • Share your research in a clear and compelling way using AI tools

  • Navigate ethical considerations in AI and anticipate future trends

  • Boost your data science and statistics written communication



Course Structure

This course is divided into six main content sections, each focusing on different aspects of using ChatGPT for academic and scientific writing:

  1. Elements of writing - Learn how ChatGPT can help you with the fundamentals of writing.

  2. Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT - Learn how to design effective prompts that elicit high-quality responses from ChatGPT.

  3. Refining Research Questions - Discover how AI can help you hone your research questions, ensuring they are clear, focused, and impactful.

  4. AI-Assisted Writing - Learn how to leverage ChatGPT to write clear, well-structured, and persuasive academic and scientific documents.

  5. Sharing Your Research - Master the art of communicating your research, data science, and statistics results effectively to both specialist and non-specialist audiences using AI tools.

  6. Ethics and the Future - Explore the ethical implications of using AI in research and writing, and anticipate future trends in AI-assisted academic and scientific writing.


Unique Aspects of This Course

  • Pioneering Approach: This course presents a new perspective on using ChatGPT for academic and scientific writing, offering learners a chance to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving field.

  • Comprehensive Coverage: The course covers a wide range of topics, including prompt engineering, refining research questions, AI-assisted writing, sharing research, and understanding the broader implications of AI.

  • Hands-on Learning: The course provides students with practical examples and exercises that showcase how ChatGPT can be effectively used in real-world academic and scientific writing applications.

  • Accessible to Diverse Audiences: Whether you're a student, an academic professional, or someone simply curious about AI, this course caters to various learning needs and backgrounds.

  • Expert Instruction: Learn from an experienced academic who understands the potential of ChatGPT and can guide you effectively through the nuances of AI-assisted writing and research.

  • Future-proofing Your Skills: By mastering the use of ChatGPT in academic and scientific writing, you'll elevate your current skill set and prepare for the ongoing AI revolution in academia.

  • Active Community: Engage with a vibrant community of learners and professionals through course forums, fostering collaboration, networking, and the exchange of ideas related to ChatGPT and academic writing.


Your Instructor

Meet Mike X Cohen (that’s me!), a former neuroscience professor turned full-time online instructor and writer. I am a bestselling and highly rated Udemy instructor who has taught over 200,000 students about scientific programming, data analysis, and applied mathematics. I have also authored numerous textbooks on these subjects.

I have been studying and using deep learning for 20 years, with a particular interest in how AI-assistance, specifically ChatGPT, can optimize and customize teaching people about data and writing.


Why Choose This Course?

By enrolling in this course, you'll gain a competitive edge in the academic and scientific writing field by learning how to harness the power of ChatGPT. Stay ahead of the curve and enhance your writing skills with AI-assisted learning. Enroll now and start your journey towards mastering academic and scientific writing with ChatGPT!


What Should You Do Now?

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Instructor Details

Mike X Cohen

I am a full-time educator and writer, and former professor of neuroscience. I "retired" from that position so I could focus my time and energy creating high-quality educational material just for you.

I have 20 years of experience teaching programming, data analysis, signal processing, statistics, linear algebra, and experiment design. I've taught undergraduate students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and full professors. I have taught in "traditional" university courses, special week-long intensive courses, and Nobel prize-winning research labs. I have >100 hours of online lectures on neuroscience data analysis that you can find on my website and youtube channel. And I've written several technical books about these topics with a few more on the way.

I'm not trying to show off -- I'm trying to convince you that you've come to the right place to maximize your learning from an instructor who has spent two decades refining and perfecting his teaching style.

Over 350,000 students have watched over 50,000,000 minutes of my courses. Come find out why!

I have several free courses that you can enroll in. Try them out! You got nothing to lose ;)

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Reviews

4.4

510 ratings on Udemy

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By Yun Wen on 3/17/2026

This course is very informative for me. Although the demos were made using an older version of ChatGPT, using the same prompts and getting better outputs clearly illustrate how powerful the tool is. We need more such courses to dispel the magic of AIs while providing the education of how to use it. Thank you very much for making this course Mike!

By Randal T. Cole on 10/14/2025

Evaluating this course for company use. Focuses on lots of fundamental skills that can be enhanced with GenAI. These are important for a wide range of employees from those less experienced with writing professional/ technical documents to those for whom English is not their first language. Could use some update on examples to ChatGPT 5, as I think the capabilities will be much improved. Overall, great course.

By Erika Wolfe on 5/12/2025

Thank you for the course, I learned a lot about ways to use Chat GPT to assist me in my job as an Executive Assistant and in my personal life as a writer/singer songwriter. I love that I can have ChatGPT critique my writing style and offer ways to improve my writing, or to write a lyric or passage in my style based on my own songs and writings that are already publicly available.

By Liegh Elrod on 10/1/2024

I was interested in the general information provided more than the scientific explanations, however I thought the examples were good. A couple of sections that don't apply to my work (too sciencey), but most of them do. I thought the explanation of Udemy would have been more useful at the beginning of the video. I appreciated the last segment on how AI was used in developing the course. I learned a great deal about ChatGPT that I can incorporate in my work. Thank you.

By Karl Rogers on 8/25/2024

As an introductory overview of how to use ChatGPT as a writing and research tool, I enjoyed Mike's course. He presents the material well and it is easy to follow and get the basics. My only criticism would be that it is possibility a little too basic to justify full price, but, as I got it on sale, I think it pretty much does what it says on the tin. Good introduction. Recommend it.

By Mehmet YOLADI on 2/17/2024

This course's prompts contain excellent examples. However, instead of extensively discussing ethics, I would have expected explanations of GPTs that could be utilized in articles, such as graphics, with examples like ScholarAI, MathExpert, AIPDF, etc. If it included these, it would truly deserve 5 stars.

By Niko Busch on 12/26/2023

Really helpful course. Lots of practical and realistic examples of typical academic writing tasks (such as writing this review ;-) ). It showed how to use ChatGPT effectively - not to do my work for me, but to improve it and make it less tedious. I also liked the "enlightened" and balanced view on ChatGPT: mostly positive, yet appropriately skeptical, without unrealistic or overhyped AI promises. Thank you, Mike!

By Miroslaw Pietrusewicz on 11/25/2023

The course is definitely good, it addresses topics that are very interesting, however, I feel a deficiency of knowledge. The course should also be updated, the new ChatGTP has much more capabilities, e.g.: web search, pdf document analysis. This gives new possibilities, I would like to see them in action in this course.

By Anonymized User on 8/23/2023

This was my first introduction to ChatGPT and I found it very helpful and reduced my anxiety about learning an AI tool in general. The course provided lots of ideas for ways to use the tool and I appreciated the writing prompts as a Word document. I took notes in that document throughout the course but did have to keep noting when some prompts were better than others. I was hoping for a bit more on how to train AI to use provided templates and I got a tad confused by the flow of the course & would have preferred it followed more of the linear progression of a typical research project. Overall I learned a lot and got the gist of how to engage with the tool in a natural way. Thank you!

By O P M on 6/6/2023

Yes. Professor Mike X Cohen very clearly explained how to use ChatGPT for academic and scientific writing, including several demo examples. One of the key points Mike emphasized repeatedly is how to effectively and iteratively interact with ChatGPT and use it as an assistant and helper for improving and mastering the writing skill on any subject of interest.

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