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I don’t think I need to introduce ChatGPT; in my opinion, it is a search engine with some generalization ability. Let’s dive in on how to use it to improve our work. As a student, I asked ChatGPT two questions frequently this month, which greatly helped.
- Please list the most cited papers on the … topic
- Please make this paragraph more academic
Therefore, I’d like to reflect on how to use ChatGPT to increase study efficiency. Here are four ways I used in the last three months. It’s worth noting that copying the question and asking ChatGPT to write the complete essay is dangerous since the answer is not 100% correct, its writing style differs from yours, and your classmates might get a similar answer. For research students, you will find the answers to niche questions are wrong. And you can’t check the sources too.
- Brainstorming or inspirations
- Summarising articles
- Explaining concepts
- Revising or improving texts
1. Brainstorming or inspiration
We used to google related questions and organize the ideas by ourselves. But now ChatGPT can help us summarize those ideas, saving us time scrolling through the search results. You could ask…
