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How to Write a Literature Review with AI Quiz
Tests building a study comparison matrix, why language models invent citations, and how to verify every reference before it enters a literature review.
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Why can a general chatbot without search produce a reference to a paper that does not exist?
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- Why can a general chatbot without search produce a reference to a paper that does not exist?
- It copies references from a secret database
- It generates likely token sequences, and citations follow a regular pattern it can imitate
- Journals deliberately publish fake references
- It cannot produce text in citation format
- What is the main difference between a literature review and a list of summaries?
- A review groups studies by theme, agreement, method or gap and explains what is known
- A review includes only one study
- A review never includes limitations
- A review is written entirely by an AI tool
- Why should an extraction schema include a 'not reported' value?
- It makes the matrix shorter
- It is required by all journals
- It lets the tool skip reading the paper
- It stops the model from filling empty cells with guesses
- Which check confirms a reference is real and correctly cited?
- The reference sounds academic
- The chatbot says it is real
- The DOI resolves and the title, authors, year and journal match
- The journal name is well known
- What happened in the 2023 US case Mata v. Avianca?
- Lawyers were sanctioned for citing cases ChatGPT had invented
- A court banned all AI research tools
- A journal retracted every AI-assisted paper
- An airline sued a chatbot company
- What remaining risk do retrieval-based tools like Elicit or Consensus still carry?
- They always invent papers
- They cannot search any database
- They only work offline
- They can misstate or misread a real paper's findings
- What is citation chaining?
- Copying a citation list from a chatbot
- Following a paper's references backward and its citing papers forward
- Citing the same paper many times
- Linking citations with hyperlinks
- Why does the guide suggest asking for a short quote and page number for each extracted claim?
- Quotes make the review longer
- Page numbers are needed to upload PDFs
- It makes spot-checking each claim against the paper fast
- It prevents the tool from reading tables
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