1. Project Management and Scheduling: Sample Prompt: Project Title: Project Type: Expected Start Date: Expected Finish Date: Follow very carefully the steps given below: 1. Carefully consider the scope and type of the project (if it is a journal article, conference paper,

2. Brainstorming Ideas Start by asking a couple of “warmup” questions. This way you will get better suggestions. You can ask questions like, “Do you know about X?” and “Do you know about Y?” Then ask how we can be related X with Y. After that ask ChatGPT to help you brainstorm

3. Outlining After you have brainstormed research questions, pick one you find most compelling and ask ChatGPT to help you prepare an outline for a journal article or conference paper. Use that outline to get started but don’t get too attached to it. You can ask ChatGPT to

4. Personal Reading Assistant I am a researcher in [your field], and my current research project focuses on [topic of your project]. I am interested in using [theorist/scholar]’s model of [briefly mention the model]. You are going to act as my personal reading assistant and

5. Semantic Search A usual Ctrl+F search on a document will give you exact matches for a given word. This is called lexical search. A lexical search doesn’t understand the meaning of your question. It can only match words. AI apps enable us to conduct a semantic search. You can

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6. Beating the Writer’s Block If you get stuck at any point while writing, simply jot down a bunch of words relevant to what you want to write. Enter these words in ChatGPT and ask it to come up with a sentence. Then ask it to give you ten variations of that sentence. Rewrite

7. Translations If you work across several languages, you can easily use ChatGPT to translate a text into your target language. I personally use Gemini because it has the OCR capability. For better results, do not ask Gemini to translated very lengthy passages.

8. Convert References into BIB or RIS for your Reference Manager Suppose you have a list of references in a paper or a book and you want upload them to your reference manager like Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote. Copy the required references and paste them in ChatGPT and ask it to

9. Copyediting and Proofreading Once you are done drafting, paste your work in ChatGPT and ask it to copyedit and proofread your writing. If you are concerned about data privacy, you can enable data controls by going to ChatGPT settings. For better results, break down a

10. Mock Peer Review Select an author (X) whose work you have engaged with in your paper. Upload that author’s papers to ChatGPT and ask it to just understand the arguments and do nothing else. Then upload your draft and ask ChatGPT how X would critique your arguments. ChatGPT

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