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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.
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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.]
Practical, brief, and affordable,Doing Research is for residents, nurses, chaplains, and other clinicians.
Written in informal, friendly style, this book makes the difficult simple.
The purpose of Doing Researchis to empower curious clinicians to conduct research alongside a mentor, even when they lack prior research experience or formal training.
Doing Research presents practical steps for conducting a study from beginning to end. It begins with “a dozen tips” to get started, then moves to study planning, conduct, and dissemination of results. A worksheet to write your research plan (protocol) is included. Research terms and process are explained, including what research is and is not. Tips & Alerts provide a “reassuring voice,” as well as alerting readers to common missteps.
Discovering Your Inner Scientist 