Super dissertation writing at your cybertip
Augmented knowledge and the changing face of knowledge acquisition and dissertation writing. Not too long ago, the workflow for writing a dissertation, a substantive body of work to prove an argument involved the psycho geography of thumbing books in a library.
Then Google arrived. Purists academic were upset, because google cut the need to peruse a library without any forethought of what you were looking for. Some scholars lamented the disappearance voyeurism, haphastance and sometimes serendipitous collision with knowledge.
Then Bard and GPT arrived. Today’s scholar is in sight of a more efficient way of knowledge production.
Not all students know how a dissertation structure holds a narrative together. You make a point and continue to dig supporting arguments with citations. One of the achilles for new students to dissertations is being discursive and the lack of references.
Combing bard, google scholar and google addresses this age-old issue.
Bard is used to provide the outline, the framework for the dissertation. Since AIs have a habit of hallucinating, all the more reasons to interrogate the generated text, as well as provide your own examples.
This is where Google scholar is used to verify Bard’s accounts, and for breaking news of the dissertation’s themes, googling: Breaking news, followed by your theme will help.
By mind mapping the data you can provide bespoke dissertation to your liking.
There is an impact on grading, for sure, given the knowledge acquisition doesn’t involve the pain staking searches you might have once encountered. But knowing how to research, and how to used the three queries effectively is the new knowledge. I show my students this clip from Star Trek circa 1960s where Capt Kirk is using a pre-ChatGPT AI machine to cross reference https://lnkd.in/gB5u-ngR
