Free Writing Course
A free, five-chapter video course on academic writing with AI. Covers research, drafting, thesis writing, and optimization. Earns a professional certificate.
FAQ ↓Jenni offers a self-paced video course called Fundamentals of Academic Writing with AI, hosted on learn.jenni.ai. Enrollment is free and open to anyone.
The course covers 5 chapters and 53 video lessons, starting with interface basics and working up through thesis writing and workflow optimization. Each lesson includes a quiz. A professional certificate is awarded on completion.
Enroll for freeWhat you get out of it
The course teaches you how to use Jenni AI across the full academic writing process: finding sources, building outlines, drafting papers, managing citations, and editing final drafts. You also learn prompt techniques and how to customize AI behavior for your writing style.
On completion, you receive a certificate you can add to your CV or LinkedIn profile.
About the instructor
Scott McCleary, MEd, teaches the entire course. He has spent 20+ years building training programs for STEM professionals at Sony, Nissan, and Toshiba, and lectures in professional communication at the university level.
Course curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction to Jenni AI
| Lesson | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1-1 | What is Jenni AI? |
| 1-2 | How Jenni AI enhances academic writing |
| 1-3 | Navigating the dashboard and interface |
| 1-4 | Buttons and keyboard shortcuts |
| 1-5 | Document settings |
Chapter 2: Conducting research
Literature reviews with AI, summarizing research articles, citation management, connecting external research databases, and ethical use of AI in research.
Chapter 3: Drafting research papers
Outline generation, drafting and refining papers, style and tone adjustments, editing and proofreading, automating repetitive formatting tasks.
Chapter 4: Advanced thesis writing
Thesis statement development, literature reviews at dissertation scale, describing research methodology, interpreting data, and dissertation formatting.
Chapter 5: Optimization
Customizing AI preferences, prompt engineering, time-saving strategies, when to use AI vs. write manually, and troubleshooting.
Who this is for
Students, faculty, and researchers who want to get more out of Jenni AI for academic writing. The course starts from zero, so no prior experience with the tool is needed.
What users say
The “AskJenni” option allows you to have everything in order and you can complement the texts from the multiple questions asked to the PDFs.
— Dr. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Senior Researcher
This tool isn’t about copying and pasting. It’s about using Jenni as a guide to help you come up with improved structure, new concepts, and ideas you can build on. When you have a time constraint, Jenni has been an absolute life saver.
— Kay Sarra, MD Candidate
I regularly test AI tools for research and I have found jenni.ai to be the best and easiest to use. We regularly use it for research writing, especially for rapidly re-formatting lists of references and developing new text ideas.
— Prof. Gareth Dyke, Researcher and Lecturer (300+ peer-reviewed papers)
Enroll for freeJenni helps me find articles on magical realism in Latin-American and African literature. It would have taken a lot of time and effort to find the work myself.
— Petro Potgieter, Professor