Transcription de la vidéo Searching for scientific articles (ChatGPT)

In this tutorial, I will explain how to start working on a term paper and, more specifically, search for scientific articles using generative artificial intelligence tools.

First, you should always make sure you clearly understand the objective and make sure you have a firm understanding of the assignment. Then, to identify specific needs, you need to get advice, recommendations for the structure and to write the term paper efficiently, because it's normal not to know where to start. Lastly, you should think about the added value, which, in this case, is to save time searching for articles.

So, “Role, task, format”, always the same prompt structure. You ask for suggestions of resources and tools that could be useful in your research.  Especially if you end with a clear request, ten recent articles to read.

The prompt is displayed on the screen

Role: As a master’s student in business administration, I have to write a term paper on the impact of remote work on employee productivity.

Task: Get tips and recommendations from GenAI to efficiently structure and write this term paper.

Format: Give me suggestions on the following:
Relevant resources and tools I could use to conduct my research and support my analyses.
Best practices to adopt to ensure my work is high quality and rigorous.
Ten recent scientific articles (less than 5 years old) to read.

The results of the prompt appear on the screen.

When you search for articles, I strongly recommend using several generative artificial intelligence tools, because they do not all use the same databases. Each tool could suggest different articles. Let’s see what Claude and Copilot will recommend as articles. You already see that Claude has produced ten numbered articles in APA style, so it’s really useful when you go look for the articles. Let’s take a look at Copilot now.

Now that you've asked 3 different GenAI tools, click each suggestion to make sure that the source is real (these tools have a tendency invent sources), that all the sources are reliable and, above all, that they're useful for your assignment. It is also very important to read each article before starting your work. In fact, several education researchers have stated that asking generative artificial intelligence to synthesize texts without having read them can be detrimental to learning.