VIT-Final day quiz

Which one among the following tools cannot be used for literature search?

• Paper Digest

• LitMap

• Sourcely

• Scispace

The exact content in the abstract should be included in the initial submission covering letter

• Yes

• No

A tool that can provide answers like ChatGPT but with more accuracy and relevant references

• Listening.io

• PaperPal

• Inkscape

• Consensus

What should be your writing persona, when you have finished researching and are writing your paper? How should you come across in your paper?

• As a student writing for your instructor

• As a science reporter writing for a wider audience

• As an expert writing exclusively for other experts

• As an instructor writing for students

"Each of the soldiers in captain Corcoran’s company were awarded the purple cross." What is the type of error in this statement?

• Subject-verb disagreement

• 
  Improper use of preposition

• Faulty comparison

• Wrong sentence structure

When is it ethically right to use AI tools in scientific writing?

• When used to generate a manuscript or a thesis like a researcher

• When used without being caught by anti-generative ai tools

• When used as an assistant, mentor, co-writer to support the writing process

• It is better to not use AI tools for formal requirements like scientific writing

"A recently developed two-photon fluorophore conjugated to a lysosome targeting morpholine (Wang et al., 2018) achieves specificity, but cellular uptake is similar to dyes and nanoprobes and as reported is not quantitative." this cannot belong to

• Abstract

• 
  Results

• Conclusions

• 
  Any of the above

A manuscript should strictly adhere to all the journal formatting rules in a "free format submission"

• Yes

• No

Which among the following section: tense pair is mismatched?

• Introduction: present tense

• Abstract: Future tense

• Results: past tense

• Materials & methods: past tense

"Figure 2 illustrates the various modules and five main workflows in SeqScreen. SeqScreen can be run in two different modes -default (i.e., fast) mode and -sensitive mode." This belongs to

• Abstract

• 
  Introduction

• Results

• 
  Discussion & conclusion