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AI for Faculty: AI Tools for Academic Research

SJTYLR AI Tools for Academics by Stephen Taylor

AI-Enhanced Tools to Find Educational Resources/Publications

Useful Prompts for Academic Tasks

Extracting References from a Paper to use in a Citation Manager

This automation helps save a lot of data-entry time. You can paste the references from a paper into the model and it can return the reference list in BibTex (.bib) format, to be imported into your citation manager. Sometimes models get "lazy" and only provide a selection of references, so it is best to do it in stages. 

Pasted below is a reference list from an academic paper. Please convert to BibTex (.bib) format, to be used in a citation manager. Check the accuracy of each entry carefully and be sure to give complete entries for every reference, including all fields and any links or DOI references. Here is the list: [Paste References] 

Creating an Understanding Guide to a Paper

This prompt can be useful for a paper you have already read, to break the key parts into questions. It directs the model to define and respond to questions that might help you see the paper differently. Copy-paste the whole prompt: 

1.) Analyze the input text and generate 5 essential questions that, when answered, capture the main points and core meaning of the text.
2.) When formulating your questions:
a. Address the central theme or argument
b. Identify key supporting ideas
c. Highlight important facts or evidence
d. Reveal the author's purpose or perspective
e. Explore any significant implications or conclusions
3.) Answer all of your generated questions one-by-one in detail.

4.) Suggest a list of thought-provoking questions from different perspectives to challenge the reader to think more deeply.