@@DrAamirAbbas as mentioned I wouldn't just copy & paste, but rather incrementally integrate edits - and actively seek to understand why those edits were made. Our PEER framework helps you understand the mechanics of good academic writing. Of course always check your university's AI policy, but generally I err on the side of transparency. Thus I would also declare how you've used chatgpt (for editing) in your paper. Again if you use chatgpt in this ethical way, you will be fine :)
I can't thank enough for this video. I am 79 yrs young and a new PhD student. Right now I am doing a Pre-PhD semester to learn how to be a PhD student. This video is a God send. You have taken away the guilt of using Chat GPT as my sounding board. I am looking forward to learning a lot from you. Bless you.
Easy. From the book Limitless by Jim Kwik, I discovered my purpose is longevity. It requires a great diet without sugar, exercising your body (I do strength training 3 x per week), exercising your brain (doing a PhD in a field I am passionate about) and an active social life (my new academic career will provide more than enough (conducting interviews, classmates, attending and presenting at conferences etc + attending the social events provided by Internations Org (a social club for Expats). I forgot. Good genes (my mother lived into her 100 yr).
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Great vid. The tone and style for the re-write can easily be fixed with a more specific writing prompt (e.g., "Make this sound professionally academic, do not embellish, keep the concepts complex but the vocabulary easy to understand so that my grandmother could comprehend it."). However, what I have found even better is to give it a sample of YOUR writing first, then ask ChatGPT to re-write all samples in your own voice and vocabulary. A 10-page paper is a helpful sample.
I'm glad to see you recommend free tools and don't just promote the latest paid platform! A few important points, though... 1) It seems you commit to a structure before any reading and before examining whether it's a viable or practical study. Just because chat gpt says there's a research gap doesn't mean it's true (and even if there is a gap, there are other things to consider) 2) Shouldn't the structure be based on your observations of the literature and what you think is important to write about? I guess the structure might be a good starting point to adapt from, but you've got to make your own decisions 3) Although you rightly say that you need to do the reading, I don't think you menton reading critically. A lot of published papers are bad, and you shouldn't just take what they say as read. You mention evidence, but evidence isn't quoting somebody, the evidence is in the data and relies on good research design and implementation. 4) It seems chat GPT made your paragraph worse!
This was SOOO helpful! I took a 5 year break in my Master's and I am so grateful to be completing my Capstone (Thesis) in the age of AI! Learned the old tools too! Never knew! Maybe I can do my doctorate after all!
00:02 Learn how to automate literature review ethically 01:55 Using ChatGPT to automate literature review ethically 03:49 Structure and potential themes are crucial for a literature review. 05:34 Using ChatGPT and Zotero for ethical literature review 07:13 Using the STRIP method to extract relevant components and references for literature review. 08:50 Hit saturation when finding articles, but ethical research due to human effort. 10:54 Ethically automate literature review using evidence, example, explanation, and by avoiding regurgitation of information 12:58 Using an ethical approach to automate literature review with ChatGPT 15:16 Using ChatGPT ethically can help save time and improve literature review quality. 17:06 Collaborative community of practice for advancing research
Thank you Prof for this guide. True, frustrated is more the word for me right now. Infact, i have limited time now to turn in my dissertation, but still stuck at literature review!
My dude, the Zotero application is amazing! Thank you so much for suggesting this application. I'm in my second class for my Master's Degree and this is going to save me so much time! Great guide too. I look forward to viewing more of your content.
awesome so pleased to hear it - we have a dedicated training on zotero if interested. join my fb group if you haven't already - we can chat directly there and also have chat support groups with more practical tips :)
awesome - love to hear it. yes i worry many students blindly use AI without learning the right steps (which then makes you more capable of using AI in the right way)
This is best advice , I am seeing this video after many rejections from my advisor. It really saves a lot of time and nice and easy tricks.thank you very much🙏🙏
They have ai checkers now at university so make sure you paraphrase whatever the ai software gives you or put it in an ai checker to see if it flags up :)
Thank you so much David. I have been stuck with literature review for my PhD thesis for about 2 years now. I have thought of throwing in the towel many times. I'm in my fourth year now. Coming across this video, it has given me hope that it is doable. Thank you
Amazing - so pleased to hear you're getting value from our training. It's not uncommon to get stuck. Definitely join my FB group and we can chat more there
Thank You this is very helpful. Now I can write my thesis literature more comfortably without worried about grammar after I understand how to use Chat GPT as Assistant Properly. I used to asked something specific but the results always dissapointing. Now after learn the key word here the results is better. I used ZENDY now for reading Paper instead of google schoolar. it Let us see paper open source paper from various journals. So what i did is saved the interesting paper to the library. With this I can find as much paper as I want then filter it later after I finished looking for the material I needed. It also let us auto cite the paper. We still need to read the paper of course but at least the source in Zendy is absolutely accessible and best of all it is free.
How come no one talks about this peer approach. I felt so bad because I am one of those that starts with "Luigi et al. , 2019 conducted a study ...... " Thank you, this is a nice structure with or without AI.
Once I realized that when I started a sentence "Luigi et al. (2024) blah blah blah" I wasn't bringing anything to the party; I was only summarizing. I forced myself to find another way where I had to build to citing someone (Luigi et al., 2024). That way my thoughts were in there and Luigi was my back up. Starting with the author is an easy way to write, but it doesn't get the paper ready to send to a journal as the paper is largely devoid of original thought--or at least that was the case with my papers.
I wouldn’t blindly copy and paste everything from chatgpt in general. Instead try to understand why it made the edits and integrate those which you like and find helpful. Check out our PEER writing training too which will enable you to understand many of those edits. In general at the moment turnitin has a high false positive rate. Many students who didn’t even use AI are getting high scores for AI, and it is a moving target - so at the moment I could say no it is unlikely but that may not be true in a few months. By having separate drafts of your paper you can always defend yourself to show at most chatgpt just edited- not plagiarism. What will not happen is a high similarity score- which is the main check in turnitin used as a red flag for cheating. Hope this helps
Thanks thats a good point keeping a back up draft is a must if one uses this approach. However, students must be very strict and diligent when keeping backups to ensure their safety. Additionally, it should be stressed that students should triple check that GPT hasnt generated new content in the response. But all that said in done thanks for the vid I will be sure to use this during my MEng dissertation
I'm interested to know if the false positives are high quality work. In other words, is turnitin simply flagging anything that's actually good as being written by AI?
This information was really helpful and relieving for me in writing my first research paper. You also really resemble Stiffler to me and those movies were hilarious to me growing up.
Thank you Prof. David Stuckler. You happen to be my name-sake. Quite interesting. Fellas, this is a great resource i recommend it for any researcher that is ready to supercharge his/her research prowess using AI.
Thank you sir, for the interesting video, which made me want to do the little review ASAP. I found it a tedious work to do before this. I think i will be able to do better. And also thank you for thinking of the students whose first language is not English, like me and who cant afford to purchase expensive apps and software. Love from Sri Lanka
Professor Davis, Great video. I am a second-year doctoral student, and the time to complete my literature is approaching. Thank you for making this video. #Subscribed #JoinYourFBG
There are some weaknesses with Stuckler's process: Lifting text from the abstract and then just paraphrasing it is still plagiarism. Perhaps not enough plagiarism to be reported, but still a reduction in the quality. This impacts the learning process, as the writer has only engaged superficially with the text. When the Lit Review is entirely derived from the abstracts, then the finished product will probably lack the depth that a good Lit Review requires. Moreover, any comments on the limitations will be derived from the abstract itself, but that's not what we want: the evaluation should come from the assignment-writer.
You can 100% paraphrase WITH citation of course. Please see our dedicated video on plagiarism for more detail on this The example is using the abstract for brevity - as mentioned you’d go through the full paper to strip out relevant material Not sure what you mean ‘any comments on the limitations will come from the abstract’. Typically there is a dedicated limitations section
I really wish my advisor gave me advice like this. I think she doesn't really know any better. But being that I am neurodivergent I need more than just vague instructions. Thank you so much.
haha if academics doesn't work i could at least be a secretary somewhere. years of online courses...by the way join my fb group and we can communicate directly there
Your video is quire informative. If one has exhausted his free ChatGPT, while just play it out. What is the alternatives of ChatGPT or how one can get back free use once again.
Hmm usually you need to wait for more ‘tokens’ to come back, or for the US to be asleep (as they use a lot of bandwidth) If you can afford the subscription it’s well worth the investment
you create the structure which is great for doing the heavy lifting yourself. my question is, when chatGpt academically rewrites the text, copy and pastes the paraphrased text in your Word document, does it not get detected as AI-generated or accidental plagiarism? Can you shed some light on this
Thank you very much for the video! I was feeling stuck but this has been helpful. I would like to just know; if I use it for the structure and outline but write my own content after reading the literature would it still say plagiarism because of the structure from chatgpt or not?
This is quite insightful Prof., however most research papers nowadays are run through AI detection tools which would in essence lead to AI-paraphrased materials being flagged. Is there a workaround for this?
@4:48. "This is not cheating. This is like having a conversation with me or another professor to give you a framework......" Excuse me!! This is cheating. No conversation with a professor produces a fully typed outline of the topic you are attempting to research and present. Not cheating is using ChatGPT to assist you in creating the outline by asking ChatGPT questions about your topic to hone in the most important issues and you creating the outline.
We make typed outlines together all the time! Sounds like your profs aren’t particularly supportive. No problem in my view to have an outline to work from. Again check with your universities specific policies of course and err on the side of transparency acknowledging the role of chatgpt in your paper
Thank you very much Professor. This is my first time watching your video. Do we need to cite ChatGPT in our reference and bibliography? I did cite ChatGPT for questions for my major review and it was frowned upon by some panel members.
I would integrate not just blindly copy and paste over. Current detectors have a lot of false positives. I recommend to err on the side of transparency and declare how you used chatgpt in your papers
Thank you very much for the info Prof David, So after using chapgpt for language editing can I to cut and paste the information or I have to do the editing manually in Word document?
Thanks for your video, however understand that it is important to acknowledge all help and support including tech and non tech; how would anyone manage that.
About to post a video on how they generate a lot of false positives. Editing is in my view ethical. Err on the side of transparency and specify it helped with editing after you wrote the first draft
Thank you! Amazing tips! Although I'm not sure how ethical it is to use ChatGPT for editing? Wouldn't the anti-AI programmes recognise it as AI-generated text?
Thank you Prof @profdavidstuckler. Do you have any good titles or guides to learn prompts for academic research and writing? I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Greetings Professor, first of all, thank you so much for this video. I have a question. The last thing you did was you edited the writing using ChatGPT. Normally these are considered to be AI generated by reviewers if I’m not being wrong, so won’t this be an issue? What I did in my university is that I wrote the whole thing by myself, and then paraphrased using GPT . Now GPT did a very good job, but my professor marked this to be generated I lost some marks. Can I please know your thoughts?
@profdavidstuckler Thank you for your excellent video. Can you please make it clear why you are using ChatGPT for editing your own writing at 14:28 ? Will not the AI detector find it is written using AI? Does not this undermine own writing and lead to detection of Plagiarims? Thank you very much.
Depends how heavy a ‘footprint’ it takes. As mentioned in other comments, this is an ethical use because it is mere language and style editing, not substantive. Err on the side of transparency and acknowledge ChatGPT’s use, and always check your uni guidelines. I also recommend integrating edits to understand them, treating ChatGPT as a personal writing coach
Sir, I have one question? So after doing what you called PEER and then getting quite academic words with the help of Chatgpt. The generated paragraph from chatgpt simply cant be copy-paste. So writing in our own words from the generated padagraph. Will it be counted as Plagiarism or not? Or there is any other method to do so if yes please suggest...
Thank you Professor. Want to ask that is the content generated here free from AI detection, or is it undetectable? I'm concerned that everything posted in the chat, even if paraphrased, might be recognized as AI-generated.
The current generation of detectors has too many false positives. Again I wouldn’t just copy and paste but integrate carefully the edits, and also seek to understand them so as to improve your writing. Make sure you’ve done the first draft yourself, and follow our PEER writing system
@@cateleya7275 which detector are you using? I don’t suggest just copying and pasting everything but rather integrate the edits and seek to understand the rationale for them. The turnitin AI detector has a lot of false positives- that is saying things were AI when AI wasn’t used at all!
