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AI Research and Fact-Checking

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Learn how to use AI tools for research without being misled by hallucinated citations, fabricated statistics, or one-sided summaries. This course is for journalists, content creators, analysts, students, and anyone who uses AI for research and wants to do it reliably. It is beginner-friendly and builds to intermediate by Module 3. No technical background required. You will learn how AI knowledge works, how to choose the right research tool, how to prompt for balanced and structured output, how to verify claims step by step, how to find and evaluate real primary sources, and how to build a repeatable research workflow. By the end you will have a complete process for producing AI-assisted research that can survive scrutiny.

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How AI Research Tools Work

Understand what AI language models know and where that knowledge runs out. Learn which research tools are best suited for different tasks before you start any research project.

  1. 1What Ai Research Tools Actually KnowTutorial
  2. 2Choosing The Right Ai Research ToolTutorial
  3. 3Ai Research Foundations CheckQuiz

Prompting AI for Research

Learn how to write research prompts that produce accurate, structured, and balanced output. Small changes in how you frame a question produce very different results.

  1. 4How To Prompt Ai For ResearchTutorial
  2. 5Prompting For Multiple PerspectivesTutorial
  3. 6Getting Structured Research Outputs From AiTutorial
  4. 7Research Prompting CheckQuiz

Fact-Checking AI Output

Learn what hallucination is, how to recognize it, and how to verify statistics, citations, and quotes from AI research output step by step.

  1. 8Understanding Why Ai Invents FactsTutorial
  2. 9How To Verify Claims From Ai ResearchTutorial
  3. 10Cross Referencing And Triangulating Ai ResearchTutorial
  4. 11Fact Checking CheckQuiz

Sources and Citations

Learn how to evaluate the sources AI gives you, how to use AI to find real primary sources, and how to cite AI-assisted research properly in academic, journalistic, and professional contexts.

  1. 12Evaluating Sources That Ai Gives YouTutorial
  2. 13Using Ai To Find Real Primary SourcesTutorial
  3. 14Citing Ai Assisted Research ProperlyTutorial
  4. 15Source Evaluation CheckQuiz

Research Workflows and Capstone

Build a repeatable four-stage research workflow, learn how to audit AI-assisted research before using it, and apply everything in a full capstone research project with five concrete deliverables.

  1. 16Designing A Repeatable Ai Research WorkflowTutorial
  2. 17Auditing Ai Assisted Research For QualityTutorial
  3. 18Conduct A Full Ai Assisted Research ProjectTutorial
  4. 19Research Workflow CheckQuiz

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