If you have published letters to the editor, articles, abstracts, posters, or books, let us know in the comments. If you have authored one of these, make sure you put it up on Digital Commons for global access or ResearchGate. And check out others’ work there.
AI is getting better at 1) organizing information & 2) making suggestions for planning and writing research.
1st—a word of warning: Always verify AI-generated contentUSING YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE!!Otherwise you’ll likely have AI hallucinations–content that is wrong, deceptive, or just plain nonsense. Scary!
Marek Kiczkowiak (speaker in below video) gives the AI-research-assistant gold medal to SCISPACE. AI SCISPACE bills itself as “The Fastest Research Platform Ever: All-in-one AI tools for students and researchers.” It performs a host of tasks, including creating slides from your paper. Other AI tools, like jenni or ResearchRabbit do some things better or differently. Watch this informative video, & try the tools.
What ethics questions does this raise? Two are: 1) questions of plagiarism (stealing) and 2) questions of how much YOU are learning when being AI-assisted.
Publishers are beginning to ask authors to what extent (if any) AI was used in a submitted paper. Moreoever, caution about plagiarizing is a cheap price for a clean conscience & learning what you need to learn. Hang onto those outcomes. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” -Proverb 4:23.
Here’s a second video for some help on avoiding plagiarism.
Your thots?
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Also, check out my 2025 bookDoing Research (~100pp) that is written to help make the difficult simple.
[Best place to purchase now is this link: Springer. Amazon is stocking it erratically for reasons mysterious to the publisher.]
This applies to you current and future authors. (Don’t think you won’t be one someday!)
Try to find an author name you can stick with. You want people to easily find all your work. What to consider? What does the future hold? Here’s some help from new online article in Nurse Author & Editor:
Discovering Your Inner Scientist 