Research involves reading huge amounts of material. AI tools can speed up discovery and organization, but academic work demands extra care with accuracy and citations.
Finding papers
Use research-focused AI tools and academic databases that search real publications and link to sources. General chatbots can invent citations that look real, so never cite a paper you haven't found and opened yourself.
Summarizing papers
Summarize this paper: research question, method, sample,
key findings, limitations and how it relates to [my topic].
Quote the sentences that support each point.Structuring a literature review
- Ask AI to group your paper summaries into themes.
- Identify agreements, contradictions and gaps.
- Create a comparison table of methods and findings.
- Draft an outline, then write the analysis in your own words.
Integrity rules
- Check your institution's AI policy and disclose use where required.
- Verify every citation and every claim against the original source.
- Don't upload unpublished or confidential data to public tools.
- Your argument and interpretation must be your own.
See Education & Learning prompts for research helpers.