Q. How can I best use ChatGPT to help write a research paper?
Be sure to check with your instructor and/or syllabus to determine the AI policy for your class before you use ChatGPT or any other AI tool.
ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. It’s not good for doing the actual searching because it makes up sources. See I can’t find the citations that ChatGPT gave me. What should I do?
But you can use it to help you:
- Narrow down your topic ideas.
- Come up with keywords for searching in library databases.
- Construct a search strategy for those databases.
- Recommend possible library databases to use for your topic.
See the attached PDF "Generate topics for your research paper with ChatGPT" to learn how.
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