Ethical AI Strategy: Brainstorming Search Terms for Boolean Searching
One acceptable way to use AI is to help you with brainstorming and generating ideas. Then you can take those ideas and plug them into a library database to find reliable sources about those topics.
Here is an example of how you could use ChatGPT to come up with Boolean search phrases:
Step 1: Type a prompt like this into ChatGPT, and see what you get.
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(This example was copied from chatgpt.com on June 21, 2024.)
Step 2: Copy and paste one of the Boolean search phrases into CU Search and see what you get.
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Step 3: Try the other Boolean search phrases or make new ones.
plagiarism AND ("college students" OR "university students")
plagiarism AND AI AND ("college students" OR "university students")
Step 4: Try searching another database from the list of Databases A-Z, such as Academic Search Complete provided by EBSCO.
Sample Boolean Search:
plagiarism AND AI AND ("college students" OR "university students")
(Note: this will give you a targeted search about plagiarism, AI, and college/university students.)
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