Developing critical reading enhanced by AI
With information abounding, mastering tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot will help you find the essentials in long or complex documents. Whether it's to extract keywords or key concepts, or to summarize them (scientific articles, theses, etc.).
This training course allows you to combine your analytical skills with those of AI for fast, reliable results that take your critical thinking into account.
Is it for you ?
General Public.
Prerequisite
Be minimally familiar with ChatGPT.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Produce structured summaries from complex and technical content
- ✓ Use ChatGPT and Copilot to quickly extract keywords and key insights
- ✓ Accelerate document reading and analysis with AI-assisted techniques
- ✓ Improve research reliability through triangulation and source validation
- ✓ Generate bibliographic references and streamline research workflows
Training content
1 Traditional research, synthesis and summary techniques
- Review of documentary research techniques;
- Reminder of synthesis production techniques;
- Example and synthesis exercise based on a court transcript.
2 The reading capacity of conversational robots
Presentation of ChatGPT and Copilot:
- Main features and potential for analyzing academic and technical texts.
- Demonstration: Example of automatic text summarization; Extraction of keywords and highlights using ChatGPT and Copilot.
3 Syntax and accelerated report reading
- Text structure and gateways to content;
- Using conversational robots to extract key concepts from entry points;
- Exercise: using ChatGPT and Copilot to identify specific elements in a text and verify answers with manual reading;
- Examples of questions to ask robots;
- Exercise: reading a passage followed by directed questions to the conversational robot.
4 Research support
- Mobilizing conversational robots and search engines;
- Triangulation;
- Bibliographic records and accelerated editing of bibliographies;
- Exercise: using ChatGPT and Copilot to identify credible resources on the Net and transform them into bibliographic records in a matter of seconds.
5 Practical tips for continuing to familiarize yourself with the tools and integrating them.
📌 Practical information
Our training sessions are offered in Montreal or Quebec City, in person or in a virtual classroom. Dates and locations are specified when you select your session below. If you have any questions, check out our FAQ.
