Many Voices & Perspectives
Using sources with different perspectives can help you create something that is fresh and this.
What is original?
Sources that provide general information, facts, and context about a topic are called these.
What are background sources?
This popular Google research tool does NOT guarantee that every result is scholarly.
What is Google Scholar?
ChatGPT is designed primarily to generate text that sounds like this.
What is human-written/human-like?
This refers to whether a source can be trusted and is accurate.
What is credibility?
Researchers can find different perspectives by using sources from different academic fields, also known as these.
What are academic disciplines?
These sources provide evidence, such as statistics, that can be used to demonstrate a point in your paper.
What are exhibit sources?
Opening another browser tab to find additional information about a source and evaluate its credibility is known as this.
What is lateral searching?
According to the lesson, ChatGPT is better thought of as this rather than as a dedicated source-retrieval tool.
What is a tool?
These four factors should be considered when evaluating whether a source is trustworthy: author, date, publisher, and this.
What is bias?
Researchers can also seek sources representing the viewpoints of different groups affected by an issue. These groups are called this.
What are stakeholders?
A source that presents a thesis you can affirm, extend, or refute would serve this role in a paper
What is an argument source?
True or False: Google Scholar allows you to filter results specifically by academic discipline.
What is False?
Using ChatGPT to retrieve scholarly sources is compared to using this tool to hammer a nail.
What is using a screwdriver as a hammer?
True or False: A website ending in .edu or .gov automatically means the information is trustworthy.
What is False?
If you're researching how later school start times affect education, searching separately for the perspectives of teachers, students, and parents demonstrates this research strategy.
What is finding different stakeholder perspectives?
A source is considered relevant when it does this for your argument rather than simply being included to increase the number of references.
What is contribute meaning/support the argument?
This Belmont-accessible AI-powered search engine searches academic articles rather than the entire internet.
What is Consensus?
The lesson warns that AI-generated sources can have problems even when they sound promising because AI is not specifically designed to do this reliably.
What is retrieve accurate information/sources?
When evaluating an author, you should look at their education, experience, and these qualifications that demonstrate authority on the topic.
What are credentials?
Finding four sources that all repeat exactly the same point is discouraged because it does not help you do this in your research.
What is say something new/build a new or interesting argument?
You find a journal article that is only loosely related to your topic and force a quote from it into your paper just to have another source. According to the lesson, what is wrong with this approach?
What is shoehorning an irrelevant source into the paper?
Unlike ChatGPT and Claude, Consensus formulates its summaries using this specific type of source.
What are academic articles?
Before using AI-generated content from Consensus in an assignment, students should check this document and speak with this person.
What are the syllabus and your professor?
Instead of relying on one indicator of credibility, researchers should examine several factors and make this type of decision.
What is a judgment call?