Research Paper 3 – Thoughts, Background and Final Version That’s it – no more! Yesterday and today became the ‘final straw’ with my research paper! Why? Because yesterday my ‘dying’ on its ‘last legs’ MacBook Pro decided that it was going to literally lose all of my research papers and drafts. I know it’s somewhat unbelievable but this actually happened! Months of hard work seemed to have disappeared in front of my eyes. The files were no longer there! I tried opening programs that I had used to construct the last version of my paper, but it was always the same message ‘File cannot be found’. I even convinced my self that there was some evil hacker trying to sabotage my work, that’s how upset I was. At one point I even thought I must be having a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. As I had been editing the document in Adobe’s PDF editing program I thought to myself, ‘Ha’ there will be a copy stored in Adobe’s creative cloud. So, feeling somewhat smug, I looked at my recent documents there, only to discover that on opening my research paper it gave an error message saying ‘bad […]
Meeting with Janet Waring Rago – This was my second meeting with Janet. It was really nice to see a friendly face after such a long journey with my research paper. Janet gave me a few good pointers and suggested that ChatGPT (in the role of a research paper reviewer) might give some additional insights into the strengths an weaknesses of my paper. Janet gave some specific text as follows: “As an academic reviewer please provide an evaluation of the strengths and weakness of the following research paper” This is definitely something that I’m going to try. The time seemed to really fly over but I came away from the meeting feeling much more reassured which is great! The Verdict! After a couple of tries I had to break down my paper into two parts in order to have ChatGPT analyse it. Here are the responses from ChatGPT when asked the following question: “As an academic reviewer please provide an evaluation of the strengths and weakness of the following research paper” Analysis from Part One of the paper Thank you for sharing part one of your paper. Here’s an evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses: […]
Meeting with Janet Waring Rago – Today was my first ‘one to one’ meeting with my research supervisor Janet Waring Rago. I had met Janet briefly a few weeks ago (Zoom Session 26). Already Janet had given me some great ideas, which I incorporated into my research paper. However, today’s ‘one to one’ session really made me think! It was a great opportunity to build on our last meeting ‘in group’. We discussed ways that I could add depth to my project. Looking back through my research paper I can see what Janet means in terms of widening the scope of my paper. Currently, my focus is quite narrow looking at whether people prefer robotic art as opposed to simple text to image art seen through a lens of empathy and sympathy. Janet pointed out that even the way in which I communicate with ChatGPT is in a polite manner, therefore could this also be a source of primary research? We also talked about whether or not it would be a good idea to try to publish my research paper. Janet felt that perhaps this would add a whole extra layer of complexity to the paper. Therefore we decided that […]
