Recently, many friends are concerned about how to write papers with GPT. Everyone knows that GPT is very powerful. When you really use it, you will find that the answers he gives you are either empty words or clichés. What's the matter? In fact, the problem here is that you don't know how to ask questions, so how do you ask questions? I have summarized a set of AI questioning methodology for you, which allows you to use GPT to write papers, read literature, polish and reduce weight, and can help you defend your paper. Today we will focus on how to use GPT to help you write papers. Of course, you may have other topics you want to hear, and you can also leave a message to add.
Regarding using GPT to help you write papers, you can follow these 6 steps to ask questions:
The first step is to confirm the phenomenon;
The second step is academic conceptualization;
The third step is to locate academic resources;
The fourth step is comparative analysis;
The fifth step is to dig deep into the revelation,
The sixth step is the first draft of the thesis.
So why ask questions from these 6 steps? A very important point is that you need to understand how GPT works. We all know that GPT is actually a large-scale language model. It captures almost all the data on the Internet, so what to do after capturing it, he has to carry out continuous induction, that is, to establish connections between a lot of information and find the data between them. At this time, the relevant relationship will often give you some unexpected knowledge connections. Each of us has limitations in knowledge and will choose a certain major, but GPT does not. He can connect this subject with that subject, and connect domestic problems with foreign problems, which is often what we lack. So in this case, it can provide you with a lot of research innovation.
When you think about it, when our advisors criticize our research, we are often pointed out what is wrong with it. Sometimes mentors say that we are not innovative, when in fact this has been confirmed by existing research. Let me recommend a literature, this article is a study of GPT to complete the four tasks that academics usually do, these four tasks include generating new ideas, reviewing the literature, preparing data, and testing ideas. The authors found that the task that GPT is best at is the first one, which may surprise you, because you might think that it is better suited to perform some simpler, repetitive tasks. But in fact, GPT scored the highest in generating new ideas, even reaching a perfect score of 10, which surpassed the level of many researchers.
So, now that you understand, you need to more precisely pinpoint what GPT does in terms of how it works. You can guide it through heuristic thinking and let it come up with new ideas for you. However, you are still a supervisor, and you must understand how to write papers in this discipline in order to master the writing skills and main line, so as to better use GPT to serve your research.
Okay, so let's walk through our six-step questioning method so that you can understand it better. We will take the "chicken baby" phenomenon in Chinese education as an example to see how it can be transformed into a thesis. The first step is to confirm the phenomenon. You need to make sure that GPT understands the "chicken baby" phenomenon, because it may misinterpret it. Confirming phenomena ensures that you and GPT are on the same channel for on-channel thinking. If GPT doesn't understand the phenomenon, you can help it understand it by providing relevant resources.
For example, you can feed GPT two articles about the phenomenon of "chicken baby" or directly ask it some news reports related to the phenomenon. That way, it can serve you better. Now that GPT has grasped the "chicken baby" phenomenon, we can move to the second step, academic conceptualization. You may be wondering, why is academic conceptualization even necessary? In fact, everyday language and academic language are two different language systems, so in the academic language system, there may have been some similar studies, and the language expression is more professional. Surely you can't write something like "chicken baby" or "lay flat" in your paper, right? Therefore, you need to ask GPT which concepts are used for research on the "chicken baby" phenomenon in pedagogy. GPT can provide you with many conceptual references, such as educational competition, parent education concepts and behavior patterns, as well as family education investment and parent participation.
GPT can tell you that "parental participation" refers to the role parents play in their children's education, which is indeed very similar to what we usually call the "chicken baby" phenomenon. So when we conceptualize the phenomenon, we can move to the next step.
The third step is to locate high-quality academic resources. We have realized that the concept of parental intake may be a concept worthy of focused research, so we will further inquire with GPT and ask him to recommend some academic literature. This process is not only a process of academic focus for us, but also a process of real-time training and real-time learning for GPT. Although GPT has a pre-trained model, only around our research can it learn and provide specialized literature in a timely manner, rather than clichés.
We started by asking GPT for different types of literature on parental intake and recommended 5 highly cited English literature. Through these clear limitations, we provide GPT with stronger guidance, and at the same time enable GPT to better learn and recommend relevant literature. GPT recommended 5 documents, and we found that the citation rate of the first document may have been as high as 3,000 times, and it can be divided into several types.
Next, we can also ask GPT about the different types of files and why we need to learn these different knowledge. By focusing on the same topic, we can ask GPT questions about highly cited literature, review literature, and literature on specific topics, specific times, and specific journals, so that GPT can learn more literature in specific directions. Doing so can not only improve the academic vision of GPT, but also help us obtain more accurate and professional research results and serve you exclusively. Just like here I come to ask him, what review literature can you provide? You see, I have provided me with a lot of reviews, which are quite helpful, but many friends may stop at this step and forget it. He recommended literature to me, is this not enough? Oh, don't forget, you are the master, you want to train him, how do you train him? You let him summarize these documents, and only then can he digest them and learn at the same frequency as you.
Let me tell him, you summarize these 5 documents in 1500 words, including background issues, method analysis, and case conclusions. Why? Because I just want to tell him that if you come to help my master write a thesis at the next stage, you should also write according to this framework. I will give him a preparation first and let him get familiar with this method, otherwise he may not know how to prepare for these aspects later, and he may not know how to read these aspects, so this is also to pave the way for the future. Of course, in this process, you will soon find that when it gives you a lot of specific documents and details, you will have new ideas, and our own ideas will also be stimulated. For example, if he told me that there is controlled parental intake, I then asked him to recommend 3 more documents. I further extended and questioned this sub-concept, and he told me that controlling parental intake is relatively excessive intervention, which has a negative impact on children, and even said below that it will cause some inferiority complex and gratitude, and it will also affect the intimate relationship between family members. You look quite like our chicken baby, many phenomena are quite useful, but he also provided me with participatory parent intake, which seems to be a good reference at this time, why? Because it seems that participatory parent intake will emphasize that students' learning is a supporting role for parents, and the focus is to provide you with a learning environment, not to interfere with you. You see, he even told me some new perspectives and new inspirations, which I didn’t expect at all, because when we talk about chicken babies, we always talk about how parents treat their children. Thinking through cooperation from the perspectives of family and community, this is totally unexpected to me, right? This is the function of GPT, it surprises you. Well, now through our first three steps, you will find that GPT has actually learned literature in different fields, and you can let it continue.
The fourth step is comparative analysis, because we know that the specialty of GPT is knowledge connection, that is, combination and innovation, so you can let it compare from different angles, and at this time you can give full play to its strengths and give you a lot of new inspirations, new ideas enlightenment. For example, you can ask him to make a cross-disciplinary comparison. You imagine that we all study a specific subject, and he can learn any subject. Alas, this is unexpected. You can compare it across regions. I understand China’s plan, but I don’t know how the United States plans. GPT can also be compared across time periods, between concepts, between theory and reality.
So in the process of these comparisons, you will find that it will not only inspire you in reality, but also inspire you in theory. This is where we will finally make research contributions. Let's take an example, let's say we can make a conceptual comparison. Didn't we find that the two types of parental intake are very inspiring? You asked him to tell me directly what is the difference between the participatory and the controlled parental intake? Alas, he gave me 5 aspects. I never thought that he could compare the role of parents, children's autonomy, and educational goals. You can see that my thinking has become more systematic at this time, and I have also been inspired and learned in the process.
You can also do a time comparison. What is the difference between the parents' baby chickens in China 10 years ago and now? You can see that he emphasized the various influences of social media and the Internet. This is also a different angle and an inspiration. What is the difference between China and the United States in geographical comparison? This is also an angle. Of course, you can also ask him to give you some specific cases, for example, ask him to give me some cases in various places in the United States, Australia, and Singapore, so that I can have a deeper understanding of this comparison. You see, when I get these cases, I can bring him back to reality, back to China. I asked him, you told me these three cases, what enlightenment does he have for China's improvement plan? You have to learn to limit and guide him.
I said, you give suggestions from four aspects: school, policy, family, and market. Look at him and he told me that we can learn from Singapore in terms of policies, Australia in terms of schools, and the United States in terms of families. What about the market? At this time, think about it, when you write the practical inspiration or policy recommendations of the last step of the paper, isn't this a good foundation? Don't you have an idea? Of course, you can also go back to the academic itself, some theoretical contributions, let me ask him, what new direction does the Chinese chicken baby have for English academic literature?
Ok, now that we have so much literature study, comparison and inspiration, we can think about how to structure the first draft of the paper. At this time, many students may be eager for success and ask to give them a first draft directly, but we actually need to be very patient in the whole process ahead. Therefore, when writing the first draft of the paper, you also need to do it step by step so that its quality remains high, and then you can gradually adjust and make it higher quality.
For example, what would I ask you first? You can give me three titles first. According to our previous communication, you can provide three titles. You will find that sometimes these titles are really surprising, but overall they are very logical. For example, I like the third title very much. It is called "A New Path of Cooperation between Chinese Parents and Schools", which explores ways to reduce certain phenomena from the perspective of parents. This title has a fresh perspective, is theoretical, and also focuses on real-world issues. Isn't the purpose of writing the title of a paper to reflect this?
But let's think about it, when we talk about "Chicken Baby", we usually only focus on parents and children, and ignore the cooperation between parents and schools. This GPT is very powerful, because it can give you some unexpected ideas.
After you have confirmed the title, you can ask him to help you write a paper outline. I didn't ask him to write the text directly, but asked him to write an outline first. At this time, I told him that this title is very good, please help me write an outline. He gave me a very academic and logical outline. He started from the background, then entered into the literature review, from the perspective of studying the way parents participate in school affairs, then specifically compared the two types of controlling parents and participating parents, and finally gave the method design part. It's surprising, but when you think about it, when he summarizes good papers, by section, he has acquired knowledge of this. Therefore, when designing my outline, he also knew to design in this direction. In the method section, he gave a statistical analysis of the data, studying the different ways that different types of parents use when participating in school affairs and their different impacts. That's a nice contrasting angle, right? Finally, he discusses from this perspective, and explores whether parental involvement in school affairs will reduce the problem of child accumulation. He also suggested some future research directions. The whole idea is very clear, the literature has a specific perspective, the method design is connected with the theory, and finally the theory and data are analyzed comprehensively, and the enlightenment for the future is given. This is an excellent thesis outline. I believe this exceeds the requirements of many undergraduate theses and even reaches the level of some academically trained graduate students. Don't worry, let him help you write each section step by step, don't let him write 5,000 words at a time. I specifically asked him to write the literature review section, asked him to write 500 words, and reminded him to add references and scholars' opinions. Because I've trained him, his literature review is very prescriptive. He first gave a general overview, and then told you how to define by type, which is very standard. Each of the following types has a paragraph, which is also very standard, and his language expression is also very academic.
However, some small partners may question the credibility of these documents. Although some of these documents may be false, we need to understand that we are the masters, and we need to screen and judge these documents. The principle of GPT is to find the correlation of data, which can provide us with some potentially meaningful connections. Even though it is possible that these connections are bogus, they are not completely unrelated. For example, although the titles of documents may be fake, if you put these titles in Google search, you will find some similar real documents. As long as these real documents are filled in our thesis, our thesis will become more authentic and credible.
Through these 6 steps, we can gradually write the first draft of an academic normative thesis. While some parts of it may be strong and some weak, overall it is an excellent first draft of an academic paper. Of course, this is just one way of writing academic papers, and maybe there are other ways that we can write better papers. If you are interested, welcome to share with us in the comment area.
Finally, when we use GPT, we must understand its principles in order to be able to ask effective questions and lead it in accordance with the academic framework and methods. Therefore, we need to understand that GPT is our assistant, it can help us search for information and establish some unthinkable knowledge connections.
Of course, after writing a thesis, many people will be troubled by how to reduce the repetition rate. In the next lecture, I will share with you how to use GPT to help reduce the repetition rate. I've managed to reduce the duplication rate of my own published papers from 90% to 8%, so it's very practical. Private message me, reply "paper repetition rate" to get the latest articles.