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How to Use GPTs to Write Your Research Project Proposal?

Or, how to write a thesis proposal. :P

Shuyi Wang
23 min readNov 19, 2023

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Students often find writing thesis proposals a daunting task. However, they might not realize that for teachers writing research project proposals can be even more stressful — a thesis proposal is written once for a degree; research project proposals, on the other hand, need to be written frequently.

Both share many similarities. They are essential steps in initiating a project (like your thesis), and the report must reflect a deep understanding of a research problem’s value and clever research design… While these aspects are personalized and highlight creativity, there’s no doubt that such reports also contain many procedural and formal elements. And it’s these elements that AI can handle with ease.

First things first, expecting AI to completely write a proposal or report for you is unrealistic. But, you need to see the bright side — if AI evolved to that extent, you’d probably have been replaced in your current position (as a student or professor) because you can’t compete with AI in terms of cost and ‘work ethic.’

While AI can’t “write for you,” how about “helping you write”? Let’s give it a try.

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Shuyi Wang
Shuyi Wang

Written by Shuyi Wang

PhD in Information Science. Associate Professor at Tianjin Normal University. Former Adjunct Faculty at UNT. First Prize Winner of HackNTX 2018.

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