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📖 Your Ideal Reader on Twitter (OWA #4) and July AI Webinar

📖 Your Ideal Reader on Twitter (OWA #4) and July AI Webinar

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
June 23, 2023

Online Writing for Academics
to Make Money and Impact

Your Ideal Reader on Twitter

Read time: 3 minutes

This is the fourth post in the series “Online Writing for Academics (OWA) to Make Money and Impact.“

Every writer writes for imagined (not imaginary) readers. As a writer, you don’t know who may read your work, but you have complete faith in the fact that there are readers out there who may read your work if they find it interesting.

Your voice as a writer depends a lot on the kind of reader you imagine. If your imagined reader is overly critical or judgmental, your writing will appear defensive as if you are trying to prove yourself. You will feel compelled to justify your viewpoints as a result of which you will not sound like a confident person.

But if your imagined reader is someone patient and intelligent, you will not feel the urge to justify or overexplain your points-of-view.

I would recommend you imagine your ideal reader on Twitter as an intelligent, respectful, and eager undergraduate student. You can even give your imagined reader a name.

Simplify without dumbing down

The fact that your ideal reader is an eager and intelligent student will help simplify complex ideas without sounding patronizing or condescending. Keep in mind that simplifying a difficult concept is different from dumbing it down.

If you make your reader feel dumb, they will not read your work and move on to other things. You must bear in mind that you are merely a flick of a thumb away from becoming irrelevant to your reader. You make them feel dumb and the next moment they have scrolled you into oblivion.

Become an Efficient Academic Writer with AI Apps — Webinar, 15 July 2023

Registration for my July webinar on how to become an efficient academic writer with AI apps is now open.

Registration includes a free tutorial (currently priced at $49.99) and access to a video recording. Please note the tutorial will be emailed to you before the start of the workshop.

If you have already bought the tutorial, please send me an email with your receipt number and I will send you a discount code for webinar registration.

In the webinar, you will learn:

How to brainstorm research questions with (AI-powered app) Elicit
How to use AI-powered search engines
How to do literature review with (AI-powered app) Research Rabbit (Zotero/Mendeley Integration)
How to stay up-to-date with (AI -powered app) R Discovery
How to supercharge your reading with (AI-powered apps) Scholarcy and SciSpace
How to take notes with (AI-powered app) Lateral
How to write zero drafts and get them "cleaned" with ChatGPT
How to use (AI-powered app) Jenni to write your first draft
How to edit your first draft with (AI-powered app) Paperpal
How to take your research to the next level with (AI-powered app) Scite
How to use ChatGPT and Bing Prompts for academic writing and reading