Don't ask ChatGPT for references. It generates fake citations to papers that don't exist.

Instead, use R Discovery to stay on top of your field.

It's an AI-powered app and totally free.
Download R Discovery from App Store or Google Play Store. R Discovery in App Store.
Select your research area and the topics you are interested in.

Then sign up with your email.
R Discovery will generate a list of latest articles relevant to your topics/research area.

You can bookmark articles you find interesting and creates "Lists" to better organize your collection.

R Discovery will also tell you if an article is Open Access or not.
Of course, you can look up papers using their titles.

Simply go to search and type the title of the article you want to look up.
Want to know more about how AI-powered apps can make you an efficient academic writer?

I have a 143-page long ebook with complete workflows on how to conceive, develop, and draft your project with AI apps.

You can get it here: efficientacademicwriter.carrd.co
In R Discovery, you can always change your Feed Settings.

Just tap the three bars in the top-left corner and go to the main menu.

R Discovery will give you a list of suggested topics and journals.
My favorite part is R Discovery sends me a daily email about a recently published article in my field.

I don't have to spend time looking up recently published literature.

It just arrives in my inbox.

And did I tell you it's a free app?
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Feb 27
ChatGPT prompts to help you with academic reading and writing:
A word of caution before we begin:

• Outsource labor to ChatGPT not your thinking

• Treat ChatGPT as your research assistant not your supervisor

• Don't over-rely on ChatGPT, and don't forget to use your common sense
Prompt: Please remove redundant words from the following passage and make it coherent and cohesive.

Write non-stop for 25min without caring about structure.

Paste the text in ChatGPT with the above prompt to structure your work.

Rewrite to suit your personal style. A passage made coherent and...
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Feb 26
Don't let ChatGPT distract you from other apps currently available for academic writing.

Here's an app especially designed to make academic writing faster and easier — ClioVis:
Go to cliovis(dot)com, click on the "Start" button, and sign up. A yellow arrow points to th...
You can either create a new project or join a project. You can also create a sample project to get started.

For the purposes of this tutorial, I'll be creating a new project. A yellow arrow points to th...
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Feb 23
How NOT to use ChatGPT (as an academic):
1. Don't outsource your thinking to ChatGPT.

Instead, outsource labor.
Example:

I free-wrote my thoughts (13,000 words in 2 hours) without caring about grammar or structure.

Then I asked ChatGPT to remove redundant words and make my writing coherent.

You can read more about it here:

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Feb 22
How to publish your first journal article:
In the 18th and 19th centuries, there used to be this institution called literary salons in Europe and Latin American.

These salons were run by aristocratic women and intellectuals gathered there to exchange ideas. A photo of Mariquita Sánchez's salon during the early 19th
Imagine you went to such a literary salon in Paris or Buenos Aires.

To contribute to the conversation going on in the salon, you would first have to listen to what others have said.

Without listening to others first, you wouldn't able to make a meaningful contribution.
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Feb 21
ChatGPT generates fake citations to papers that don't exist.

But there is an AI-powered app that gives you real citations to actually published papers — Scite.

Here's how to use it:
Go to Scite's website and type in your query.

Select "Ask a question" option at the bottom. A yellow arrow points to Scite's "Ask a question"
Scite will generate an answer to your question.

This answer will have proper citations/footnotes linked to published articles. An answer generated by Scite.
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Feb 20
I submitted four single-authored journal articles during my PhD (defended May 2022).

All four were published. Acceptance rate: 100%

Here's how I did it:
A bit of background: My field is comparative literature, and I specialize in World Literature and South Asian Literature.

This is important because academic publishing works differently for different fields.
Let me start with my first article since that's the hardest.

Like most grad students, my first article was based on a seminar that I took in Fall 2018.

The seminar was titled "World Literature from a Historical Perspective."
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