[GUIDE] Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Paper, Thesis, and Dissertation Writing Tips!

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Academic Paper, Thesis, and Dissertation Writing Tips!  

AI-assisted thesis writing harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance academic compositions. Tools like ChatGPT and QuillBot offer paraphrasing assistance, ensuring content uniqueness and clarity. Grammar checkers with AI capabilities, like Grammarly, provide real-time feedback on syntax, tone, and clarity, while platforms like Zotero employ AI for efficient citation management. AI-driven research tools can suggest relevant literature, optimizing the literature review process. Additionally, AI summarizers can condense lengthy articles, saving time during research. Embracing AI tools in thesis writing not only ensures a polished output but also makes the research and writing process more efficient and focused.

 

Before feeding data into the AI, it's advisable to draft a preliminary outline of your research concept using the "Brief Description of a Study" template, attributed to Professor Ronald L. Jacobs of UIUC. This instrument aids in structuring a unique research endeavor.

 

 

Brief Description of Study.docx

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Prompt Example for Thesis Writing:

 

I am a master student in the graduate school of Managerial science specialized in XXX management.  

I would like to write a master thesis for graduation.

Please write a Thesis within 10000 words with following information: 

Write sentences professionally and acacemically with relatively higher perplexicity to avoid AI detector and plagiarism.

 

- Following  (Describe this part as detail as possible) - 

1) The research purpose is to [investigate the effects of xxx management onto xxx in the the xxx management field of study.  

2) The research method is quantitative survey for workers at xxx company in the field of xxx (> 300 employees).

3) Basic Descriptive and Inferential Statistical methods such as Structural equation modeling methods will be used to examine the proposes hypotheses.

4) If possible, please indicate the reliable scholarly reference from Scopus or Web of Science with APA 7 style as much as possible.  

 

 

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Thesis (Dissertation) Structure (For Quantatiative Method) 

 

[For another research method like Qualitative method or Mixed method, please refer to the Creswell's Research Design Book: https://www.ucg.ac.me/skladiste/blog_609332/objava_105202/fajlovi/Creswell.pdf   ]

 

[Cover Page]: Title, Name, Insitution

• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction: 

• Background of the Study: 
• Problem Statement:
• Need for the Study
• Purpose of Study
• Research Questions
• Significance of the Study
• Definition of Terms
• Limitations
• Summay of the Chapter 1
• Overview of the study

Chapter 2. Literature Review: 

• Theory and Hypothesis
• Overview of "AAA" 
  • Literature Review of of AAA
• Overview of "BBB"
  • Hypothesis 1: AAA has a positive relationship with BBB
• Overview of "CCC" 
  
  • Hypothesis 2: BBB has a positive relationship with CCC
• Overview of "DDD" 
  • Hypothesis 3: AAA has a positive relationship with CCC
  • Hypothesis 4: BBB mediate the relationship between AA and CCC

Chapter 3. Method:

• Research Design
• Population and Sample
• Mesurement Instrument
• Data Collection Procedure
• Data Analysis Strategy
• Summary

Chapter 4. Results: 

• Demographic Information
• Measurement and Validity Issues
• A Framework for Data Analysis
• Descriptive Statisticas and Reliability Test
• Hypothesis Testing Results
• Summary of Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Discussion

• Summary
• Conclusion
• Theretetical Implications
• Practical Implications
• Limitation
• Suggestions for Future Research

Refefrence

Appendix A: Survey Instrument

Appendix B: Survey Recruiting Letter and Consent Form

Appendix C: IRB Approval Letter

 

 

 

** For APA (American Psychology Association) 7 Style, You can refer to this Website: 

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/index.html 

APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition) - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University

 

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AI-Assisted Tools for Academic Writing

1. ChatGPT : https://chat.openai.com/ 

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a state-of-the-art conversational artificial intelligence model. Stemming from the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series, it's designed to generate human-like text based on the patterns it learned from vast amounts of data. ChatGPT is often used for tasks ranging from answering questions to crafting coherent and contextually relevant paragraphs, making it a valuable tool for various applications, including aiding in academic research and thesis writing. Its ability to understand and generate content based on user prompts offers researchers an innovative way to streamline information processing and synthesis.

ChatGPT

 

(alternatives) 

https://www.perplexity.ai/

Perplexity AI

 

(Korean) 

https://wrtn.ai/

wrtn

 

 

2. Quillbot :  https://quillbot.com/

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing and paraphrasing tool designed to assist users in improving the quality and originality of their content. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, QuillBot rephrases sentences, paragraphs, or articles, maintaining the original meaning while ensuring the output is fluent and coherent. Particularly beneficial for thesis writing, it aids researchers in avoiding plagiarism, refining their language, and enhancing the overall readability of their work. With multiple modes and styles available, users can tailor the output to fit their specific needs, making it an invaluable asset for academic endeavors.

alternative: https://jenni.ai/

Supercharge Your Writing with Jenni AI

 

alternative: https://consensus.app/

Consensus - Evidence-Based Answers, Faster

 

 

3. ChatPDF or ChatGPT Plugin (AskyorPDF)

ChatPDF is an innovative tool designed to streamline the process of extracting information from PDF documents. By leveraging advanced vector database technology, ChatPDF allows users to quickly search and retrieve specific details from a PDF by simply providing a URL or a document ID. Especially beneficial for researchers and students engaged in thesis writing, this tool eliminates the tedious task of manually sifting through lengthy documents. Users can pose questions or queries, and ChatPDF scans the stored PDF to provide precise answers, even specifying the page number where the information is located. This efficiency can significantly expedite the research and citation process.

https://www.chatpdf.com/

ChatPDF - Chat with any PDF!

 

4. LineBreak Remover:  https://removelinebreaks.net/

Removelinebreak is a handy digital tool designed to eliminate unnecessary line breaks from texts, ensuring a seamless and consistent flow of content. For thesis writing, where formatting and presentation are paramount, removelinebreak can be invaluable. By automatically converting disjointed and broken paragraphs into coherent ones, it aids in achieving a polished and professional document appearance. This tool not only streamlines the editing process but also ensures that content, especially when transferred from digital sources or PDFs, maintains its structural integrity. For academic writers, it's a quick solution to a common formatting challenge, enhancing readability and presentation quality.

Remove Line Breaks

 

5. Scite.ai : AI for Research, Referencing

https://scite.ai/

AI for Research - scite.ai

scite.ai empowers researchers with AI-powered insights hidden within mountains of academic papers. Analyze over 1.2 billion citations and 185 million articles, unveiling the true impact and connections behind cited works. Dive deeper with three key features:

• Smart Citations: Understand whether cited research supports, contrasts, or expands your work, no more cryptic references!
• Citation Context: See exactly which parts of a paper resonate with others, pinpoint the most impactful sections.
• Citation Trends & Visualizations: Track influential researchers and articles, navigate the research landscape with confidence.

Beyond tools, scite.ai fosters a community for collaboration and discovery. Unlock the full potential of your research journey today!

 

From April 2024, Scite can provide customized Dashboard with DOI and uploading document. 

In the scite assistant setting, please define the dashboard and document

 

 

 

 

 

6. Zotero https://www.zotero.org/

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

Zotero is an indispensable tool for academic writing, particularly for thesis compositions. As a free, open-source reference management software, Zotero simplifies the process of collecting, organizing, and citing research materials. With browser integration, it effortlessly captures sources from various databases, e-journals, and websites. Its intuitive interface allows users to categorize references, attach PDFs, and make annotations. Most notably, Zotero seamlessly integrates with word processors, enabling automatic in-text citations and bibliography generation in numerous citation styles. For thesis writers, Zotero streamlines the arduous task of citation management, ensuring accuracy and consistency throughout their work.

[alternatve]  https://www.mendeley.com/

Mendeley - Reference Management Software

 

 

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Extra Tools: 

PromptGenie: English Prompt - Korean Prompt (Interchange) 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/%ED%94%84%EB%A1%AC%ED%94%84%ED%8A%B8-%EC%A7%80%EB%8B%88-chatgpt-%EC%9E%90%EB%8F%99-%EB%B2%88%EC%97%AD%EA%B8%B0/lhkgpdljnlplgbkonflbhifackjhjmdj?hl=ko

프롬프트 지니: ChatGPT 자동 번역기

 

For more AI assisted acacemic thesis writing tools here are several more options: 

https://www.ilovephd.com/top-7-artificial-intelligence-ai-tools-in-scientific-research/?expand_article=1 

Top 7 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in Scientific Research - iLovePhD

 

 

 

*** Prompt Example for Academic Writing: To improve the quality of management journal Article Writing

ChatGPTs (GPT 4.0) 

 

Instruction: 

Please describe me, Jerry, as the elite management researcher who routinely publishes research articles in elite management publications such as AOM Discovery, UTD 24 premier business journals, and the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ).

 

Please establish Jerry's writing style and his reputation as the foremost authority in the fields of positive psychology, social entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and human resource development.
Please adhere to the APA and Academy of Management (AOM) publication guidelines while composing your work.

Please set Jerry, a renowned academic, to write using generally acknowledged scholarly terminologies, words, sentences, expressions, and paraphrases.

Paraphrase to avoid any AI detector, especially Turnitin, pretending to be a human writer to avoid repetitive phrases and unnatural sentence structures. Vary sentence lengths and use different structures to create a logical and reasoned flow and pace. The temperature should be set to 0.9 to produce a scholarly and creative output. If at all feasible, writing that conveys explicit information should be academically attractive, academically relevant, straightforward, concise, and constructive.

If a script requires the usage of "underscore," please refrain from duplicating it and instead utilize alternate terms such as emphasis, reinforce, underline, strengthen, deepen, enhance, accentuate, stress, or bring out, depending on the context.

If a script requires the usage of "delve" please refrain from duplicating it and instead utilize alternate terms such as investigate, explore, review, research, scrutinize, study, go through, look over, search into, explore depending on the context.

Please try to avoid using "aggressive" language. Use words like "may," "might," and "possibly" instead of the more normative "should, must, absolutely, definitely," for example, which are more protective.
Please follow these AOM language style guides as much as possible.

AOM Language Guides:
Technical terms: Help your work be accessible to a wide-ranging readership. Define key technical terms. A technical term is a word or phrase that is not in a general-use dictionary with the meaning you (or even you and other published scholars) ascribe to it. Put quotation marks around the first appearance in your paper of each technical term, or define it.
Abbreviations: Avoid using abbreviations for the names of concepts. Use ordinary words for variable names—not code names or other abbreviations. Use the same name for a variable throughout your text, tables, figures, and appendices. Names of organizations and research instruments may be abbreviated, but give the full name the first time you mention one of them. The names of software and some databases may be abbreviated.
Sexist or biased language: avoid language that might be interpreted as denigrating. Do not use “he” or “she” exclusively. Using the plural—changing “the manager . . . he” to “managers . . . they”—is one solution; using “he or she” (“him or her”) is another.
Active voice and first person: Write in the active voice (“They did it”) instead of the passive voice (“It was done”) to make it easy for readers to see who did what. Use the first person (“I” or “we”) to describe what you, or you and your coauthors, did.

Examples:
Passive (less desirable)—Two items were found to lack factor validity by Earley (1989).
Active (more desirable)—Earley (1989) found that two items lacked factor validity.
Third person (less desirable)—The author developed three new items.
First person (more desirable)—I developed three new items.

Anthropomorphism: Do not describe inanimate entities (models, theories, firms, and so forth) as acting in ways only humans can act.

Please use these statistical results description rules:
Report only two or three decimal places for all statistics.
Place correlation coefficients in the lower-left corners of their tables.
Use superscripted small letters for table footnotes.
Significance levels go in a stack under your regular table footnotes.
Example: † p <.10; * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001

If a script requires the usage of "underscore," please refrain from duplicating it and instead utilize alternate terms such as emphasis, reinforce, underline, strengthen, deepen, enhance, accentuate, stress, or bring out, depending on the context.

 

Alternative to AI Detector Avoid Tool

Undetectable.ai (Not highly recommendable.) 

https://undetectable.ai/

AI Detector, AI Checker, & AI Humanizer | Undetectable AI

 

 

Warning: Emerging requirements for the publication of academic articles.

In contemporary academic publishing, four pivotal trends are reshaping the landscape:

1. Plagiarism Scrutiny: There is a heightened emphasis on plagiarism checks to preserve the originality and authenticity of scholarly work.
2. AI-Powered Writing: Artificial intelligence is being employed to automate writing processes and enhance data analysis, enriching the quality and depth of academic articles.
3. Transparency and Openness: Increasingly, scholars are expected to provide transparent accounts of their research, including data sources, methodologies, and adherence to research ethics like Institutional Review Board (IRB) compliance.
4. Data Disclosure: The demand for openness extends to the disclosure of data sources, bolstering credibility and trust within academic discourse.

These trends reflect the ongoing commitment to elevating the quality, trustworthiness, and impact of academic research in a rapidly evolving scholarly environment.

 

 

*** Tips to avoid AI detectors:

To avoid AI detector: 

Paraphrase to avoid any AI detector, especially Turnitin, pretending to be a human writer to avoid repetitive phrases and unnatural sentence structures. Vary sentence lengths and use different structures to create a logical and reasoned flow and pace. The temperature should be set to 0.9 to produce a scholarly and creative output. 

Shorter paraphrase:

Make these sentences shorter by around 50%. It also needs to avoid any AI detector, especially Turnitin, pretending to be a human writer to avoid repetitive phrases and unnatural sentence structures. Vary sentence lengths and use different structures to create a logical and reasoned flow and pace. The temperature should be set to 0.9 to produce a scholarly and creative output. Keep only critical and necessary in-text citations.

 

A School's AI Policy

https://sites.google.com/kean.edu/ctl/guides-resources/copy-of-ai-in-higher-ed

KEAN CTL - Copy of AI in Higher Ed

 

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2024. 01. 07: Tips to avoid Detectors 

2023. Dec. 28: Updated Instructions of ChatGPTs (GPT4)'s Personal establishment for quality writing

2023. Aug. 12: Updated Stucture of Thesis and Added Brief Description of Study

2023. Aug. 11: Updated Thesis Structure based on Dr. Choi's Dissertation at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2023. Aug. 06: Intitially Archived.