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02IdeationJuly 2024

Using ChatGPT for the Pre-Writing Stages

A useful outline should reveal your thinking, not conceal its absence.

The practice

Use ChatGPT to surface questions, possible structures, subpoints, and counterarguments before drafting. Treat every outline as provisional: reorganize it around your purpose, evidence, and emerging point of view.

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What to carry into your work

  1. 01

    Turn a broad topic into specific research questions.

  2. 02

    Interrogate the suggested structure instead of accepting it whole.

  3. 03

    Add the sources, tensions, and examples that make the plan genuinely yours.

The ethical question

Did the tool support the formation of an argument—or quietly substitute for one?

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