EssayMate User Guide
Getting Started:
Step 1: Log In
• Log in to your EssayMate account.
Step 2: Navigate to Essay Generation
• From the left sidebar, click the Generate Essay option.
Creating Your Essay:
Step 3: Provide Essay Details
- Enter your topic in the Essay Topic or Prompt field.
- Specify the length in the Word Count field.
- Choose your preferred citation style from the dropdown.
- Clearly outline your instructions in the Additional Instructions box.
- Optionally, upload your source PDFs in the Reference Materials (Optional) section.
Important Tips:
- Your essay topic should clearly reflect the title of your assignment (e.g., essay, research paper, or case study).
- In the Additional Instructions section, specify clearly how the document should be structured, including sections or special guidelines. Avoid pasting entire rubrics or grading criteria here.
- For web sources, convert them to PDF using your browser's Print → Save as PDF feature. Avoid scanned PDFs.
- If you need to access journals and articles (some offer free PDFs while others limit access), visit Semantic Scholar, search for your topic, and select the Has PDF filter to download available PDFs.
Generating and Selecting Essays:
Step 4: Choose Your Essay Method
- Select the Generate Essay button.
- You will see retrieved essay matches. To review a match, choose View More.
- If a match suits your needs, select Use Selected Essay to have it customized to your instructions.
- If no matches fit, choose Generate Fresh Essay to create a new essay using AI.
Step 5: Generation Process
• Allow the essay generation process to complete without refreshing or leaving the page.
Step 6: Review Your Generated Essay
• Your essay draft will appear once the generation finishes. Note that this draft may require further refinement.
Post-Generation Options:
Step 7: Actions on Generated Essay
- On the right-hand side under the Actions panel, you can:
- Download the unpolished essay (.txt format) by clicking Download.
- Request professional editing by selecting Request Review and providing your deadline.
- Request an AI/Plagiarism report by selecting Get AI/Plagiarism Report.
Step 8: Tracking Reviews
- To monitor your human reviews, click the Submissions link in the left sidebar.
- Active reviews will appear under Active Submissions.
- Click Chat to communicate directly with your reviewer and provide additional documents such as rubrics or extra instructions.
- Upon completion, the polished essay (DOCX format) will appear under Submission History.
- You can download the reviewed version by selecting Download Reviewed, continue the conversation, or request additional revisions via Request Revision.
Managing Your Essays:
Step 9: View Generated Essays
- Click Generated Essays on the sidebar to see all your previously generated essays.
- Here, you can download your drafts (.txt format) anytime.
Now you're ready to craft quality academic essays effortlessly with EssayMate!