Interactive webinar module
Ethical & Effective Use of AI in Research Paper Writing
Key question: How do we use AI to become more intelligent researchers, instead of faster fabricators?
Format
6 sections · self-paced
Audience
Lecturers & postgraduates
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The message of this session
AI does not make you a researcher. It makes an average researcher faster at being average — and a careful researcher sharper at being careful.
Everything in this module is built on one rule: AI may help you think, structure, critique and communicate. It may never supply the evidence, the data, or the accountability. Speed is a by-product. Quality is the goal.
Learning outcomes
- Apply journal, publisher and university expectations on AI use, authorship and disclosure.
- Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and NotebookLM at the right point of the research writing workflow.
- Write high-yield prompts that produce critique and structure instead of fabricated content.
- Verify every AI-assisted claim, citation and interpretation before it enters your manuscript.
- Leave with a personal, defensible AI workflow for your next paper.
The six sections
Integrity First: The Real Risks
Publisher policies, authorship rules, and where AI use crosses the line.
Framing & Literature
Sharpen the research gap and synthesise sources you have actually read.
Method & Data Sense-making
Stress-test design and interpretation without fabricating anything.
Drafting with Structure
IMRaD scaffolding, argument flow, and prose that still sounds like you.
Revision, Review & Submission
Simulated peer review, journal fit, and a pre-submission checklist.
Intelligence, Not Speed
Your personal AI workflow, a self-check quiz, and an action plan.