AI in Research Writing

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Activity: allowed, grey zone, or not allowed?

Asking Claude to critique the logic of a Discussion section you wrote yourself.

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Asking ChatGPT to 'give me 10 recent references on this topic' and pasting them in directly.

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Uploading your unpublished manuscript to a free AI tool to polish the abstract.

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Using AI to generate an extra 30 survey responses because your N is too small.

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Listing ChatGPT as a co-author because it 'wrote a lot'.

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Using Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) to summarise 25 PDFs you have already downloaded and read.

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Wrap-up self-check

1. A colleague asks ChatGPT for 10 references on her topic and pastes them into her draft. What is the main risk?

The references may be fabricated or mismatched, which is a retraction-level error.0% (0)
The references will be too old.0% (0)
The journal will charge extra fees.0% (0)

2. Which of these is the safest and highest-value use of AI in a literature review?

Asking a chatbot to summarise the field from memory.0% (0)
Uploading PDFs you retrieved yourself to NotebookLM and asking grounded, cited questions.0% (0)
Asking AI to write the review and then rephrasing it.0% (0)

3. Your sample is smaller than planned. Which action is research misconduct?

Reporting the small N as a limitation.0% (0)
Using AI to help justify a design suited to a small sample.0% (0)
Using AI to generate additional plausible responses.0% (0)

4. Can a generative AI tool be listed as a co-author?

Yes, if it contributed substantially.0% (0)
No — it cannot take responsibility or approve the final manuscript.0% (0)
Only in the acknowledgements as an author-equivalent.0% (0)

5. When should you write your own rough draft?

After AI produces a polished version you can edit.0% (0)
Before involving AI, so the argument and voice are yours.0% (0)
Never — editing AI text is faster.0% (0)