AI research you can actually defend.
For students writing a literature review or a thesis: which AI tool to use at each step, what it costs, what it does with your files, and where it fails. Every dossier is dated, and affiliates are disclosed.
The cited-search front door we'd back for student literature reviews — not the highest overall fit on the atlas.
Or start with a path
Three academic workflows: assignment brief, literature map, peer review. Each is a path, stack, and playbook. You finish with an artifact you can defend, not a tool list.
Student researcher
Build the source trail with Perplexity, Semantic Scholar, Zotero, and NotebookLM before you write a sentence, so every claim has a source you opened and dated.
5 lessons · Open path →Literature reviewer
Use the named tools to group papers by what they claim and measure, so disagreements surface before you write the first section.
5 lessons · Open path →Peer reviewer
Settle the venue AI rule first, then build the report from one human read and the public citation record — not from a pasted PDF.
5 lessons · Open path →A comparison you can actually share.
Put two dossiers side by side: fit, cost, privacy, and the failure modes that actually change the choice.
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