How write a research paper in a weekend [My AI Sprint Framework]

this is how I would write an academic research paper on a weekend now I am starting on Friday Friday evening it's my video I can do what I want but the thing about starting on Friday is that it gives you a whole night and a whole sleep to start thinking about things now one thing I like to do when I'm writing a paper is I need sleep in between each section in in between each like process so I can actually sort of like generate new ideas come up with things so I want to maximize the number of sleeps before submitting this article so here I've got asleep let's do a brain that is a terrible brain here's another brain here we are here's another friend oh God and here I'm making sure that I have plenty of good sleeping and resting time because as I'm sleeping and as I've had a break from the papers I'm actually kind of like thinking about the next steps so on Friday evening it's really important that we don't sort of like get panicked and we start jumping around into loads of different things this process is going to ensure that it's sort of streamlined but also your brain is only really good at thinking about one thing at any given time so on Friday evening before I've even started writing the one thing I want to do is make sure that I've got all of the information I need to enter Saturday ready to go so by uh all the things I need I mean figures so I've made sure that I've got all of my figures and tables and graphs and everything that I need to talk about so I've got figures such as bar charts scatter graphs I may have schematics like little diagrams of things that I want to talk about oh look it made a little nice little square for me but ultimately these are the things that I need prepared before I start writing now the way I tackle this always when I write a paper is I start with the figures first so create the figures it doesn't matter about like the formatting and stuff at the moment but I need to know the data that I'm talking about otherwise I'm sort of like jumping between tasks and I get really really inefficient so it's important that you prioritize this uh action based on complexity if something is going to be harder for you to create do that first there's no point sort of like easing your way into it because you're just going to run out of brain power in the future when you go to tackle the harder things so for each of these days you're going to start with the hardest things first um on Friday not only have I sort of like started to think about the figures but also maybe I want to sort of like get any literature that I think is really good you want to go through menley or zoto and I want to find all of the stuff that's really important for my research so lit there we are okay I got it literature then also I want to sort of like start thinking I'm going to lay my brain to be creative and I'm going to put down any dot points about the figures that I definitely want to talk about and that I definitely want to be part of the story the research story that we're trying to tell so uh I want to talk about any uh trends I want to talk about what else I want to talk about all of the kind of just yeah things that pop into my mind don't sort of like filter them and think oh it's not worth it yet just allow all of the dot points to kind of um come out of your mind and then we're going to sleep on it we're going to allow our brain to organize it and you'll be amazed that on Saturday morning what we're able to achieve so on Friday that's what we're doing Friday evening which is the weekend that's technically the weekend my video I get to do I want Saturday this is where it kind of all really kicks off um and because we don't want to jump around too much one thing I want to do on on Friday is maybe put my figures into a little bit of an order but on Saturday morning I want to make sure that I have got an absolute sort of like um structure to my figures because those are going to be the backbone of my scientific research paper remember we got different sections we've got the introduction we got the abstract we've got the conclusions got results and discussion all of those things are kind of um you know important to write but the order is very important I would write the results and discussion first and the thing is there's no sort of AI tour that will do that for you initially so what you need to do is start with your research story so here we're going to sort of say okay we're going to go in this order for my um research uh story because I'm going to talk about this schematic first then I'm going to talk about this bar chart and then I'm going to talk about this scatter graph um and if you're sort of like talking it out in your mind doesn't make sense try rearranging this order also go check out my other video I'll put it here where I talk about how to use chat GPT Vision to help you structure your figures it's amazing um anyway so that is a tool that you can use but ultimately you're going to use your intuition can you talk through your figures and that's the story we're going to tell then on Saturday the one thing we're going to do is under um or next to each figure is we're going to just put the dot points that we want to mention for each figure okay let's get rid of that line and let's say okay on Saturday what we're doing is I want to talk about for this figure these three dot points it could be um the trends you see it could be the important factors the take-home messages from that figure whatever it is that's what we want so we want at least three things um or it could be more or less it doesn't really matter but I always aim for at least three to five things about each figure that I want to address and then we've got our structure so on Friday we're collecting all the information Saturday morning this is the structure allowing our kind of brain to sort of like just create that narrative naturally like I said play about with the order if you need to that's super important then Saturday morning I'm going to sort of like stop after I've done this for about an hour the one thing I like to do is uh throughout this weekend is I will be using um deep work kind of uh processes to make sure that I stay on track so this is going to take me about 45 minutes then I'm going to have another break there we are 45 minutes then I'm going to have a break and then I'm going to try something else and I'm going to do this for as much as I can in that break I want to make sure that I'm thinking about nothing else H sorry no not nothing else I thinking about anything but the research so go take a walk uh watch something if you want anything you find energizing don't just scroll on your phone cuz I find that just saps my energy and then what we're going to do is we're going to take this results and discussion so results and discussion R&D and we're going to flesh out all of the things that we want to talk talk about that research story where we use the figures to kind of structure what we're talking about now you can use chat GPT to do this go check out that video that I talked about before where I said hey um to chat GPT I said hey these are the dot points and I actually put in the figure turn this into um a paragraph suitable for a research article and then it'll actually give you your first draft for you the thing about this is you cannot use it as your final draft it has to be your your first draft um but if you want to do it the oldfashioned way um you can just flesh out these dot points it doesn't take too long to be honest so then we're turning these dot points into full paragraphs and we're referencing figures and all that sort of stuff so we're saying you know in this figure you can see blah blah blah this is important because and uh yeah we're using that to kind of structure what we're saying about each thing then you've got your results and discussion section you do that in 45 minute blocks until it's finished that will normally take you 2 or 3 hours if not a little bit more because we've done all the prep work got the bullet points now it's about just fleshing it out if you're using chat GPT it could be a little bit shorter which is great the next thing we want to do is make sure that uh we have got the information we need for the next sections this is for Sunday so once we've got our research and developments uh sorry research and development we've got R&D this is the same is it once we got results and discussion done um the last thing we want to do on Saturday so we're going to do this in 45 minute blocks as long as it takes so each one's 4 5 minutes um and just set like a timer on your phone for that one but the last thing we're going to do here is we're going to make sure that on Sunday we've got the ability to write the introduction and the um abstract and those sort of things because that's going to be our final thing we're not worried about final drafts at the moment we're going to look over everything on on Sunday evening we're going to do the editing stuff and when you can use um AI tools to do that or we can just read over it and edit ourselves that's absolutely okay but here we want to make sure that we've had a look at literature and we're just refreshing our mind with um the sorts of things we want to sort of like put in the background of our research story so that could be the latest results the latest studies um don't start too far back um but you want to say you know in my field it was like opvs um have the potential to and then some you know some generic um references to sort of talk about that you can use um maybe not at this point but on Sunday morning you can use services like site and uh Jenny to produce your introduction so site and Jenny are AI tools um that allow you to find references and Jenny it's like an automatic writer as well so Jenny IIA AI there's also uh UI I think it's called or youu Yu something like that it's in one of my videos these names are getting so mental um but yes these are AI writing tools and uh they will allow you to sort like generate that first introduction um which really speeds things up if you if you're trying to do the two things at once which is find literature and write the background this will help you do it so Jenny AI really helps you me as well and then site will help you find all those references and then this is uh yeah so we're going to sort of like allow our minds to think while we're sleeping and we're going to go here and uh oh look at that Arrow that's horrible and then we're going to say okay well there we are that's us prepared for Sunday the first thing on Sunday once again we're going to get up we're going to do the hardest thing first so we're not going to look over anything we're going to start generating content the first thing you want to do every day is generate content do those hardest things um and so we're going to look at the introduction and uh we're going to sort of write a simple introduction using these tools or the literature that we've we've sort of like got from our past that's also okay then we're going to do this for 45 minutes again if you can maybe at this point you feel a bit more enthus you can do up to an hour but anything more than about an hour and a half in a block my mind just starts to one and you have to work with what your brain is doing at any given time so that's Sunday morning uh the first bit we're going to look at right in a simple introduction using AI tools or the literature that we've gathered throughout our research um and then what we need to be doing is thinking about the you know the rest of it which is um taking our results and discussion and coming up with the conclusion section and we may at this point have an abstract have a go at an abstract so there are simple um structures that you can use to write an abstract go check out my eBook The Ultimate academic writing toour kit where I talk about the structures for creating all of these things so I'll put a link to that in the description below um uh but it's important that you know you don't just start writing from scratch one thing I absolutely really recommend you do before you start writing an introduction before you start writing conclusion before you start writing an abstract is get your mind into that mode by reading a couple of abstracts or a couple of introductions and just use it to tempate your own response or your own sort of like first draft so one thing I used to like to do if I needed to write an abstract is I would read say two or three abstracts in the field that I'm writing about and that will help me then get that my mind into like abstract mode or um introduction mode or conclusion mode or whatever it may be so that's what I would do so do some reading before um each one of these sections on Sunday once again you may want to spend 45 minutes um producing each one and yeah you can use AI tools as well you can put in all of your results and discussion and say generate an abstract that's suitable for this ref for this journal in this way use these abstracts as a structure you can actually put those abstracts in to your uh chat GPT or perplexity for example and say hey use this as a template to create an abstract based on my work so you can sort of like use AI tools um and it's something that I do all the time and it's so super powerful um I really like it um and then on Sunday the last thing we're going to do in after we've had a nice big lunch break going to make sure that we do something that fills us with energy um we're not going to scroll on our phones like on Saturday um but we're going to make sure that here we've got plenty of time for reading over stuff you're going to edit you're going to self-edit and the editing is going to take the form of you reading it through then if anything doesn't sort of like you know sit right with you in the way something's phrased you got two options you can change it there right there and then and say yeah I know exactly what I need to change it to or just put a big old red um sort of box around it or highlight it red and just say you know a little comment saying come back to this later sometimes I can't think of how I need to change it at that time but if I come back to it at a later stage which we're going to use Monday morning for before we submit this article um that is going to be really useful for you so you don't have to change it right away you want to keep that momentum up if you can't thinker something put a red box around it boom move on easy peasy so here we're going to edit and we're going to View and um then we can use AI tools like chat GPT um to do that sort of process for us where we can put in a paragraph and say does this make sense is this suitable for Journal give me some recommendations or give me a score out of a 100 on how this reports for accuracy readability that sort of stuff and then you can sort of use that to sort of like give yourself feedback on how this actually sounds I have used AI as an editor as a reviewer and it tends to work really well it just helps you sort of like formulate your own ideas and if you're struggling if it's English as a second language you can actually just say you know does this does this sentence or this paragraph makes sense for this figure and you can put in the figure um and then you can say give me recommendations on how to improve this paragraph or this explanation of a certain figure and then you're done you can do that with your conclusions as well um and one thing I like to do with AI is just always continually like put stuff into it so it can formulate um a response understand what you need from it and have that chat backwards and forwards with chat GPT if it doesn't give you an answer that you want just say hey this isn't exactly what I want um I felt like it was a little bit too broad a little bit too generic give me something that's more applicable to this figure or you know that sort of stuff have a chat with it normally after two or three um you know question and answers or directions it normally does very good understanding what you want so that's the uh Sunday afternoon we're reviewing we're looking over stuff at this point if you can send it off to someone don't worry about perfection it's not going to be perfect but send it off to someone you know will be able to look at it over the next couple of days if not the best thing for us to do is once we feel worn out is we leave it and then on Monday morning we do that last check so we read over our paper and we say yes I like this no I don't like this and we have that last change importantly again we've got these sleeping moments where our brain is able to work on that subconsciously in the background so uh then we come into it fresh again in the morning um because at this point trust me your brain's going to be a bit fried from all of the work you've done on Sunday but on Monday morning we're going to do that last check um and then we're in to publication um submission which is great so that's how I would write a paper on a weekend given that I had all of the data that I had everything I needed to go on Friday evening and then it's about just creating that structure going through going through uh giving yourself breaks making sure you work in 45 minute blocks don't get scattered you need a structure if you start sort of like on Friday going oh I I'll think about my abstract or I'll think about something else no no no no keep keep to sort of like uh focusing on one thing at a time in this structure and you will end up with a paper um by the end of the weekend and uh you can use AI tools it's so great the world of research has changed with the onset of AI tools it's made things so much easier anyway I'm waffling that's how I would do it if you like this video go check out this one where I talk about how to use chat GPT to write research articles easily it's a perfect addition to this video and it's full of actionable advice to make sure you know how to use chat GPT to its fullest go check it out

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Published: Tue Jan 23 2024