ChatGPT can be used ethically in your PhD literature review and these 3 prompts are game changers, enabling you to stay in integrity and smash your writer's block!
You should never use ChatGPT to generate content for your PhD literature review, or any other chapter of your doctoral thesis because this is unethical and would constitute academic misconduct at most, if not all, universities. The words in your PhD thesis should be generated by you. If you have writer's block, you're smart enough to work through it without getting someone - or something - else to do the work for you.
However, ChatGPT can help you with a whole host of other things that cause writer's block in your PhD literature review. It's great at generating questions you can ask of yourself to boost your critical analysis, suggesting provisional headings to structure the chapter, and prompting you to consider a range of theoretical questions. That's what I cover in this video!
Many PhD students aren't using ChatGPT well to support them in developing their literature review. What you put into ChatGPT in terms of prompts and commands will determine the quality of the output it generates and how helpful or unhelpful it is in climbing out of the writer's block hole.
So, if you don't give it the information it needs to generate useful, insightful material, it will churn out generic nonsense that will be utterly useless to you, completely irrelevant to your literature review and wholly unhelpful in tackling your writer's block.
I'll tell you exactly what you need to input into ChatGPT to ensure the assistance it does give you is tailored specifically to the questions you have about your PhD literature review.
** Now, before you watch this video, read this - this is super important **
Do not use ChatGPT for anything until you have familiarised yourself with your university or college policy on the use of AI in your academic work. This varies from one institution to the next, so what might be perfectly okay in one university may be seen as academic misconduct in another. So, that policy should be your North Star. It overrides anything I teach you here on my channel and anything you read, watch or otherwise consume anywhere else online or offline, okay?
Chapters
0:00 - 1:12 Introduction and overview
1:13 - 2:42 What to do before entering any prompts
2:43 - 3:42 Prompt 1 - structure
3:43 - 5:03 Prompt 2 - being more critical
5:04 - 6:04 Prompt 3 - incorporating more theory
6:05 - 6:18 Conclusion
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