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LeapSpace™ Writing Coach

The drafting tool that challenges you to improve your evidence, not just your eloquence.

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What Writing Coach does differently

AI tools have made writing easier. LeapSpace™ Writing Coach makes writing stronger. Built for researchers at the moment of writing, Writing Coach is a secure, private workspace where you can test your reasoning, shore up your arguments, and surface what's missing. It’s grounded entirely in publisher-neutral, Scopus-indexed literature. No guesswork. No generic suggestions. No changes without your say-so.

Writing Coach doesn't just flag what's misspelled. It prompts you to consider what evidence might be missing. It doesn't accept claims at face value. It checks them against current, relevant research. And it doesn't stop at rewrites. It points to trusted, peer-reviewed sources that are related to your work.

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Three ways Writing Coach supports researchers

Most writing tools fix how you say things. Writing Coach scrutinizes what you're saying, and whether the evidence holds up.

  • Contextualize reasoning, understand how your work connects to the wider research landscape. Ask: "Is this claim well-supported, and how does it align with existing research?"

  • Strengthen arguments, improve the clarity, logic, and evidential grounding of your writing. Challenge weak assumptions, add relevant supporting evidence, and make your claims more defensible. Ask: "How can I make this argument more robust?"

  • Identify gaps, reveal missing evidence, unanswered questions, and opportunities you haven't addressed. Ask: "What am I missing before I submit?"

How Writing Coach supports institutions

Research institutions need AI tools they can verify — and defend. Writing Coach gives librarians something concrete to recommend: an AI writing assistant grounded in evidence, not just plausibility, that helps researchers adopt AI responsibly and demonstrates institutional commitment to research integrity.

For academic leaders, it goes further. Writing Coach aligns with institutional AI policies for responsible use, reduces reputational risk from unverified AI outputs entering published work, and strengthens governance around AI in manuscript preparation — providing clear evidence that your institution's AI tools are built for rigor, not just convenience.

How it works

  • Two-panel layout, document editor on the left (a clean surface where researchers can type or paste existing text). Assistant tab on the right (chat with the AI, ask questions, follow up queries).

  • Back-and-forth dialogue, refine and challenge your draft through evidence-based suggestions, in conversation with the assistant.

  • Reasoning steps, Writing Coach explains its suggestions — surfacing the structure of the argument, the constraints, and the evidence basis.

  • Built-in Claim Radar, claim-level evidence checking against 107M+ peer-reviewed papers, returning sources that support, contradict, or are mixed (and labeled as such).

  • You stay in control, encourages researchers to evaluate evidence themselves. No automatic edits — all changes are user-approved. Content remains private, secure, and not used for model training.

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