How to write coursework, a report or a research paper with AI

Referat, sərbəst iş, coursework and thesis: what each requires

The name tells you the scale. A referat reviews what others have written on one topic: you collect, compare and summarise sources, usually without research of your own. A sərbəst iş (independent work) is a shorter semester task; at many Azerbaijani universities it is worth up to 10 of a subject's 100 points.

Coursework (kurs işi) adds your own analysis: a small study, calculation or case, with a clear aim and conclusions. A diploma or master's thesis is the same at full size (relevance, aim and tasks, methods, novelty), defended before a committee. Lab and practice reports follow a template: aim, method, results and conclusion.

Length, deadlines and source counts come from your department's guidelines (metodik göstəriş). Get them first: they override any general advice.

Choosing and narrowing a topic

A broad topic produces a vague paper: “ecology” or “artificial intelligence” could fill a library. A good topic fits your page count and has sources you can get. Turn it into one research question; AI can suggest ten narrower versions with three questions each, and your supervisor approves the final one.

Narrow by place, period, object or angle:

• Ecology → Pollution of the Caspian along the Absheron coast: causes and measures
• Artificial intelligence → AI in Azerbaijani schools: opportunities and risks
• Fuzuli → The theme of love in Fuzuli's “Leyli and Majnun”
• Azerbaijani oil → The Nobel brothers and the Baku oil industry

Structure: introduction, main part, conclusion, references

Almost every paper has the same skeleton. Draft the plan as headings with two or three points under each, and ask AI to critique it (“what is missing, what overlaps?”) rather than fill it. Write the introduction last, once you know your results.

1. Title page (university, topic, your name, supervisor, year) and contents.
2. Introduction: relevance, aim, three or four tasks, methods and sources; usually one to three pages.
3. Main part: two or three chapters, one per task, with a citation for every claim that is not common knowledge.
4. Conclusion: answer the aim and each task in turn. No new facts.
5. References: every source you cited, and only those, in the required style.
6. Appendices, if needed.

Finding real sources and citing them correctly

This is where AI fails most often. Ask a chatbot for “ten sources on X” and it may return perfect-looking references, with plausible authors, journals and years, that do not exist, or credit a real author with a book they never wrote. One fabricated reference can sink the paper. The rule: nothing goes into your list until you have opened it yourself.

1. Start with your textbook, lecture notes and your supervisor's reading list.
2. Search library catalogues (your university's and the National Library's at ek.anl.az) and academic databases, such as eLIBRARY or CyberLeninka for Russian-language work.
3. Check each article's DOI at doi.org or on the journal's own website.
4. Read the passage you cite, note the page, and quote exactly or paraphrase honestly.
5. Use the required citation style. An APA book entry reads: Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher. Many Russian-language departments use GOST R 7.0.100-2018.

Formatting and the final check

Follow your university's rules exactly; they differ. A common convention in Azerbaijan is Times New Roman 14 pt with 1.5 line spacing on A4. UNEC's rules for the referat that doctoral applicants submit, for example, add a 3 cm left margin, at least 20 sources, no uncited source in the list and at most 10% direct quotation. GOST 7.32-2017, which many Russian-language guidelines draw on, asks for at least 12 pt, 1.5 spacing and a 30 mm left margin.

Before you hand it in, check:

• Headings match the contents page, and pages are numbered.
• Every citation in the text has an entry in the list, and every entry is cited.
• Numbers, dates, names and quotations match the source.
• You can explain every paragraph out loud; if you cannot, rewrite it.

Using AI honestly under university rules

Ask your teacher what is allowed before you start. Brainstorming, planning, untangling a hard source and getting feedback on your own draft are very different from handing in text an AI wrote. Submitting AI text or invented references as your own is plagiarism, and some universities check every paper for it. Use AI to learn, not to cheat: you will have to defend the work. If your rules require it, say what you used AI for.

OrujovAI is built for this kind of help. In /chat, Search mode answers from live web sources with numbered citations you can open and check (Deep Research is on Plus). Chat suggests narrower topics, critiques your outline and gives feedback on a section you wrote; attach a source PDF and it tells you what the PDF says or summarises it. Document Studio turns finished text into a Word or PDF file, and in /pdf you can translate a PDF or edit it by saying what to change. It works in Azerbaijani, Russian and English, and the Free plan needs no card. Open its citations before you cite them, too.