[toddm]

In my opinion, you should not be using AI or apps or anything other than a text editor and TeX/LaTeX to advance your skills here.

My suggestion is to assign to yourself a research topic and write a paper just as you would if submitting it to a refereed journal. Pick something you already know about (or know a lot about).

I am biased - I have a strong academic background and published journal articles, meeting abstracts, and the like - but the outline of title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, analysis, and conclusions provides structure and will help guide you through the process. If you want to be surgical about it, include citations and a bibliography.

What happens next? Find a "reviewer" and tell them to red-ink the hell out of your paper. Make the edits and resubmit it until the reviewer is happy. If you can, gently impose on a friend/coworker who in your estimation is a good writer and has better writing skills than you do. This might cost you a few coffees/beers/pizzas but it will be worth it.

[salva101]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your feedback and I love your suggestions! I'm super optimistic that we are not far away from having that “reviewer friend” just being an AI. It will do exactly what that friend is supposed to: red-ink the hell out of your paper.