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AI chatbots will level the global communicative playing field

February 10, 2023 / 4.0 skills, AI, AI tools, AI writing assistant, articulate academic, Communication skills, digital writing assistants, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Lingua Franca, Language proficiency, Non-native Professionals, Published articles, Training skills, Writing training / Nigel P. Daly / Leave a Comment

ChatGPT can be used to write emails, wirte summaries for research, and even write reports. It can help EFL or ESL or ELF speakers kill three birds with one stone: 1. It will naturally rewite a text and remove any incorrect English; 2. It will replace awkward phrases with natural sounding ones; and 3. It can create the appropriate tone, like formal, casual, caring, serious, apologetic, and even funny. ChatGPT can give the power of perfect English to non-English speakers, and this can democratize high-stakes international communications in the business and research fields.

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EFL 9. “Sharing” your way to better networking: Curating and sharing articles

September 19, 2021 / 4.0 skills, articulate academic, Communication skills, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Lingua Franca, Job application skills, LinkedIn, Networking on social media, Social Media skills, technical writing, Writing training / Nigel P. Daly / Leave a Comment

Sharing other people’s content is good for building your network on Linkedin. Here are some strategies for add value to shared content.

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Boosting research visibility: A Science Communications template to help you turn your research into a good story

August 29, 2021 / articulate academic, Communication skills, digital storytelling, Social Media skills, story telling, Writing training / Nigel P. Daly / Leave a Comment

By analyzing a good example and offering a template, this article will help you write an effective research story, reach a broad audience and increase your research visibility. There are basically six things you can do:
1. Immediately set the character/emotion/setting, 2. Immediately state the relatable problem, 3. Tell the story over a timeline, 4. Create a rising action toward the climax – positive results from research, 5. Set up a cliffhanger ending with caveats and/or implications for future research (story sequel) – possible light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel solution, 6. Use the right language.

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Insights into the usefulness of machine grammar/spell checkers for improving research writing

June 19, 2021 / articulate academic, Communication skills, copy editing, digital writing assistants, technical writing, Writing training / Nigel P. Daly / 3 Comments

A comparison analysis of Human copy editor vs machine grammar/spell checker on key sections of a research manuscript. Many errors in the original non-native English speaker’s writing were not found by Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Ginger, Grammarly, and Trinka. Longer and difficult to read sentences were not identified by the machine language checkers.

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