How to

(Actually)
Use ChatGPT
for Academia
A FREE research
assistant to boost your
research productivity!

SWIPE

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Table of Contents:
1. ChatGPT for Ideas
Generation
2. ChatGPT for Participant
Recruitment
3. ChatGPT for Data
Cleaning and Analysis
4. ChatGPT for Manuscript
Editing and Submission
5. ChatGPT for Grant
Letters

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ChatGPT is a super
valuable tool for
academics to save time
and boost productivity.
It can help you automate
many tasks.
In this tutorial, I'll show
you how to use ChatGPT
ethically for your work.

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 Ideas generation
-Finding ideas for papers by
asking ChatGPT to read the
limitation section of prior
papers.

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 Ideas generation

As you can see, my prompt

generated 10 ideas for further
research.
I can do further refining by
using this input:
Which ideas among the 10 are
novel and generalizable (i.e., if
solved, could a broad impact)
OR
I could say which ideas could
be accepted in Nature journal.
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 Ideas generation

Using the prior tip, I was able

to narrow down to 4 ideas:

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Participant
Recruitment
As part of an ethics
application, we may be asked
to submit a participant
consent letter. Let's ask GPT
to draft it:

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Participant
Recruitment
Also, after the study is
approved, we may now need
to email everyone. Let's draft a
cold email on ChatGPT. The
draft can be edited later

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 Data Analysis
ChatGPT can help analyze
both quantiative and
qualitative data.
Let's start with quantitative
data.
Basically, ChatGPT can give
you the codes to load and
analyze data on Excel, Stata, R
or Python.
For the purposes of this guide,
we will use R.

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 Data Analysis

I asked ChatGPT to teach me

how to carry out a meta-
analysis on R.

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 Data Analysis

ChatGPT gave me the

complete code on how to load
data and create meta-analysis
forest plots.
Please note that ChatGPT can:
1. Explain code
2. Improve previous code
3. Rewrite code using correct
style
4. Simplify code
5. Find bugs in code and
6. Translate code
The possibilities are endless!
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 Data Analysis

Now let's move on to

qualitative data.
1. Speech-to-text softwares
are not perfect. After you have
transcribed a qualitative
interview, you can ask
ChatGPT to correct spellings,
and punctuations. Just paste
text and give instructions.
2. Additionally, it can do
thematic analysis.

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 Data Analysis

Here is a prompt on doing a

basic thematic analysis.

After entering the text, it

generated the answers based
on the code book questions
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 Manuscript
development
About to submit a paper? You
can make sure there are no
obvious errors or awkward
sentences in the paper before
submitting it. See below:

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 Manuscript
development
Stuck on the introduction
section of your paper?
ChatGPT can suggest an
outline for you:

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 Manuscript
development
Do you want to organize the
references in your paper? You
know who to ask:

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 Manuscript
Submission
Most journals ask for a cover
letter when submitting your
manuscript. ChatGPT can
draft this for you:

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 Manuscript
submission
Do you want to find out if a
journal charges an Article
Processing Fee? Ask ChatGPT

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 Manuscript writing
Please note that ChatGPT can
check grammar, paraphrase
and summarize articles/ or
texts if need be.
Use these features ethically!
ChatGPT can also translate
text and maybe useful if you
want to read a paper in a
different language.
You can also ask for a
reference list for a latex bib
file.
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 Supervisor's Letter
Whether you are applying for a
grant or other awards, your
supervisor can easily draft a
recommendation letter for you
using ChatGPT.
Give appropriate instructions
that can help the software
personalize the information.

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In conclusion, If you are not
using ChatGPT, you are hugely
missing out.
ChatGPT can provide several
advantages for academia,
including fast and accurate
responses to questions,
access to vast amounts of
knowledge and ability to
handle complex information
and language.

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