AI Assisted Academic Research

What you'll learn

• Define core AI concepts for researchers
• Explain how large language models work
• Describe embeddings and semantic similarity
• Explain retrieval-augmented generation for scholarship
• Map AI across research workflow stages
• Distinguish appropriate versus inappropriate AI uses
• Refine research questions with AI support
• Generate keywords and Boolean search strings
• Combine AI search with scholarly databases
• Verify AI-suggested citations in databases
• Summarize papers using structured AI prompts
• Extract methods, findings, and limitations accurately