Building a Literature Review with AI – 50 Prompts for Academic Research

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This downloadable booklet includes 50 structured prompts to help you plan, search, analyse, and write your literature review using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, SciSpace, Litmaps, Consensus, and Elicit. The prompts guide you from your first search keywords through to full critical evaluation.

If you want to use AI for your literature review in a reliable and academically appropriate way, this booklet provides a clear structure to follow. It is suitable for anyone working on a research project or academic assignment, including students, educators, and independent researchers, and it helps you improve both the quality and efficiency of your review.

What this booklet helps you do

• find key papers quickly
• improve your academic search strategy
• read articles with deeper understanding
• identify themes, patterns, and debates
• evaluate arguments and evidence
• build a clearer, more confident literature review

What’s included

• Section A: Discovering the Literature
  Prompts for finding landmark papers, tracing citations, discovering new search terms, identifying journals, exploring datasets, locating theses, and understanding how a topic has developed over time.
• Section B: Synthesising the Literature
  Prompts that help you compare ideas, map themes, identify shared concepts, evaluate evidence types, group claims, and turn scattered notes into a structured literature review.
• Section C: Critically Evaluating the Literature
  Prompts that help you examine strengths and weaknesses, analyse assumptions, compare theories, test claims, and evaluate the reliability of a field.