Research Report Info

Whenever you do research, keeping track in an organized way is a good habit. This assignment counts as one of your three required papers in the course. As you do research to pick out the five sources you will use in your papers for this course, collect information about your sources into a document. Here’s how:

Step 1: Works Cited Listing for Each Source (5 points for each correctly listed source, 25 points possible)

These are the pieces of information that you need to make a complete record of each source on a Works Cited page:

Author Name or Names (if more than one author). “Article Name.” Journal Name, vol. #, no. #, Month year, pp. #-#. Database, link.

Cite buttons inside the databases you should be using will generate most, sometimes all, of this information for you. Your job is to make sure the information is all there and to copy and paste into your Research Report correctly.

Step 2: AI Summary (1 point each, 5 points possible)

Use an AI assistant to summarize the contents of each article. Prompt your AI assistant to summarize the main ideas of the article you upload in 100 words. You don’t want a longer summary than that. This is an overview. Cite the AI with a link and/or with a screenshot.

Step 3: Your Summary (10 points for each summary, 50 points possible)

Read each of your sources using your AI generated summary as a guide. As you read, make notes about which parts of the AI summary are accurate and which parts aren’t. You will probably find at least one place where how you read the article is different from the AI summary.

Now write your own summary, correcting the AI summary. Explain how this article will help you write about your Research Question, which you have already picked out in Week 2. I want to see at least 100 words in your own words for each source.

AI tools are not permitted for any part of step 3 — you need to read the articles yourself, take your notes, and write your own corrective summary.

Step 4: Quotes (1 point for each quote that has an in-text citation included, 15 points possible)

Read through each of your sources and gather quotes. Every time you pick a quote, record the page number in parentheses after the quote. This page number is called an in-text citation.

Choose 3 short quotes from your source. A short quote is a quote that is 1-4 lines of text. Please do not choose any quotes for your papers that are 5 lines of text or longer.

Repeat this process for all 5 sources. Once again, AI tools are not permitted for any part of step 4 — you need to gather and cite the quotations yourself.

Step 5: Grammar (5 points)

Check your Research Report for grammar. If you need help with grammar, consult your Little Seagull desk reference, the grammar help videos in our Course Resources section in Moodle, or the grammar-checking suggestions in Microsoft Word or Google. (Please do not use Grammarly for this assignment, which will want to rephrase your own writing substantially and not always constructively.)

Step 6: Formatting (Please be kind, a human reads your assignments.)

List your sources in alphabetical order by author last name.

Once you have finished, make sure you have a heading on your paper and your last name and page number in the upper left corner.

If you have not done this already, change your font to 12pt Times New Roman for your entire document, double space your entire document, and select Remove Spaces After Paragraph if your program has automatically selected spacing.

Step 7: AI Acknowledgement Statement

After you have completed these steps, now draft your Acknowledgement Statement. Use the Monash University template:

I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain use].

You must write this acknowledgement statement for every paper in which you use AI assistance.