We are going to use ChatGPT to fasten our research thesis. ChatGPT is like that bright student in class who can help you do your homework in one hour, then you spending a whole weekend buried in books. It is important to note that with ChatGPT breaking down your problem, it makes it easy. Do not feed everything at once, break it down into small chunks and start feeding them into ChatGPT. After you have your results saved, then you can join them later.
For example, for research, ask ChatGPT to help with the analysis of results, writing an abstract, and then ask it to come up with a discussion and recommendation. Break down your problem into smaller manageable chunks and then combine them.
Now, let us dive into the challenge ahead of us. A reminder, kindly follow me on YouTube for more content and hit the Bell icon to receive notifications from me.
Now, let us use one research article to show you how we can use this tool. I will begin by summarizing my abstract to 250 words or less. Let us first see how many words we have here by copying our abstract and pasting it into a word counter. As you can see, we have 340 words in total. We are going to ask ChatGPT to reduce them by summarizing this abstract.
Let us now go to ChatGPT and type the command: ‘Reduce the following to less than 250 words’ and press Shift+Enter to paste the abstract. As you can see, our abstract is being summarized. Let us check the total word count. We have 129 words in total, which is way less than 250. However, we have lost the different subtitles we had in our abstract. The solution to this is asking ChatGPT to summarize the individual subtitles of the abstract.
Now, let us copy the abstract again and ask ChatGPT to generate a little longer result such that we have more words. We are having ChatGPT generating the summary for us. Let us copy it again into the word counter. Now the word count is 141 in total. Let us go back and give it a continue command. This makes ChatGPT continue from where it stopped. Now it is continuing with the summary and adding more content. You can keep telling it to continue until you have the desired word count. Let us see the results now. So, in total, we now have 242 words, which is very good and less than 250 words, which is acceptable.
This new summary, you can copy it and save it in a Word document. You can read through it and correct any small mistakes. We shall then use it later as we are combining everything to come up with one document.
Now, let us feed the results into ChatGPT and ask it to discuss them for us. Type in to ChatGPT: ‘Discuss the following results’ and press Shift+Enter to paste the results on a new line. I will not copy everything just for demonstration. It is important if these results are not in tabular form since ChatGPT does not take in tables. Also, I advise you to write your results into an organized paragraph for better results. The better you organize your results into paragraphs, the higher the quality of the results.
Now, ChatGPT is analyzing the results for us and giving a discussion. If you want a detailed discussion, keep giving it a continue command whenever it stops. As you can see, it has continued giving us results. We shall then copy and paste this in a separate Word document. Also, read through to correct any mistakes.
Now, let us ask ChatGPT to suggest for us some eye-catching research topics in relation to our data. As you can see, we have a couple of them. You can choose one or even modify them. We can ask it to create objectives and methodology. I recommend asking it to create objectives alone and methodology alone, then you combine these. Breaking down the problem into smaller parts generates better results.
Let us get some recommendations now. Ask ChatGPT for the above discussion to give us some recommendations and conclusions. Now we are getting the recommendations with a conclusion. If not contented, just ask it to continue and then you will have the desired results.
Copy these into a document that you will combine with the rest. Let us ask it to suggest the most viable sample size for our project. So, our 328 is a good one according to ChatGPT.
Let us ask it about organizing our data to come up with a dissertation. This is basically for junior researchers who know less about organizing a dissertation. Now we have an outline of how a dissertation should be organized. This is the same pattern we shall follow when organizing our documents into one Word document.
We can even ask ChatGPT to give us an introduction in relation to our topic. ChatGPT is our research assistant when it comes to writing, and as you can see, it does the job well. We can even generate a methodology separately.
Now, we have all the information that we need. We are left with one task, and that is the compilation of all our articles into one. Then read through to correct errors and flow. This may not be the perfect one, but if you give ChatGPT concentration, it can save you hours. Some take-homes: make sure that you break down your problem into small chunks and feed them into ChatGPT. Make sure you present your results as a paragraph instead of a table and organize them well before feeding them into the bot. Join the results and fine-tune them by deletion and omission such that they match your desired outcome.
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