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Research your assessment using gen AI
Note: You must always read any search results and sources used in your assessments. Citing sources you haven’t read or used in your assignment is misleading and unethical. It can be considered as Academic Misconduct because it involves presenting false information as genuine research.
Gen AI tools (e.g. Copilot & ChatGPT) can be very helpful in transferring your search terms into Library Search and Library Database friendly search strategies.
Computers do not understand our search terms the way we do. Asking a question like "What are the environmental impacts on humans consuming insects" will not get you the best search results.
Instead, you need to construct your search strategy using Boolean logic and search syntax like:
("insect consumption" OR entomophagy) AND ("Environmental footprint” OR Sustainability OR “Carbon footprint” OR “Greenhouse gas emissions” OR “Climate change”)
Sometimes it is easier to format this in Advanced Search like this:
However, this still requires you to understand the use of the Boolean operators and search strategies.
Instead, gen AI can help you format your search terms and keywords in the best way to use the computer searches.
Once you have developed your set of subject keywords and alternative terms -- try brainstorming, and then asking gen AI:
PROMPT: "Can you suggest some synonyms and alternative terms I may have missed like these [list your brainstormed terms for topic 1]?"
Then you can develop a search strategy.
Try a prompt like:
PROMPT: "Please format these keywords on [topic 1] into a search strategy using Boolean logic and include the terms for [topic 2].'"
Do not use these terms to search within gen AI, instead use this strategy in ECU Library Search AND / OR our academic databases (Library databases)
Remember to filter to “Peer reviewed” and look for current sources.
After searching, remember to assess the credibility of your sources (try the CRAAP Test!)