Research paper entries and editing process

Recently, I found difficulty and low efficiency in reading and summarizing numerous research papers, and only a few resources were actually used. That tired me so much and made me procrastinate over working on the process. To bear with it, I considered using an AI tool in my research process. The AI tool is called "Codex," which is able to access my files directly with the terminal. I used this AI tool to summarize research and collect data for my research paper. I do not rely on AI in my writing, and I use it purely in accumulating resources and summaries. Although the AI tool made it more convenient to organize sources, it still has the things humans need to do, like ensuring the information is accurate and in the paper, or reading and analyzing the core resources that are important in my writing. I am not averse to AI being used upon any academic task, "as a tool," but not as the generator, missing the whole process of writing. Also, I think it is essential for users to keep their critical thinking while using AI tools for the task.

Today, I wrote psychological and neuroscientific research on the factors triggering procrastination in younger state of ages. In Psychological Reasoning, the main argument is related to fear of failure. Especially with the teenage years, fear of failure is present a lot due to lack of experience. As such, as the age goes up and has enough data on experience of failure, that gives more confident on starting work immediately. On the other hand, in the field of neuroscience, the claim was that procrastination in the younger age group is because of a lack of development in the frontal lobe of the brain, which contains important parts of the brain like dlPFC (role in suppressing sensation seeking) and Orbitofrontal Cortex (role in making priority).

After the struggle with scarcity in the resource, I overcame the problem that I mentioned: use AI search engines and use Limap make linked from already have papers. After that, I organized them in the order of psychology, cognitive, neuroscientific, environmental, and economic mediations in procrastination and age. Some research papers, such as The Nature of Procrastination by Steel, contained broad and useful information, so they were planned to be used across multiple paragraphs. Now I am outlining body paragraphs, as I did in the introduction. Next, I will make a bibliography for a more organized future editing.

Since the very first draft on my instruction part was successfully constructed, I would like to focus on outlining my body structures. The main topic in the paper was organization in factors mediating the confirmed negative correlation between procrastination and age. My plan was to write a brief outline and sources in each sentences and building the first draft on each body paragraphs according to the outline. However, the problem I faced was the scarsity in resourses in ccertain subjects. For example, if I was to outline my first body as a psychological factors and my second body as cognitive factors, there was sufficient and broad resources about psychology field, while there was no single reliable research on the cognitive factors. Resources I previously accumulated and analized was also higly concentrated on one field and most of sources on other area had lower credibilities and insufficinet quantitiy. Therefore, my next goal would be finding reliable sources more by 3 methods I use often:

After the reading and summarizing through five key research papers' introductions, I started to plan my own introduction's outline identifying main informations on each paragraphs. Title: Organization in Factors Mediating the Confirmed Negative Relationship between Procrastination and Age. 1st paragraph: Definition of procrastination, Prevalence of procrastination, Negative effects of procrastinations 2nd paragraph: Results in negative correlation between age and procrastination 3rd paraghraph: Examples in factors of this relation, Scarcity in the field of finding facotrs between them 4th paraghrph: Goal of the review paper: Categorizing and organizing of previous researches to clarify all mediators in procrastination and age. Based on the outlined plan, I initially wrote my introduction in my native language because Korean was my most comfortable language to write, and to make sure I paraphrasing well by translating in my native language first and turn them into english after. Since the previous review on other introductions, It was not really hard to make main points on each paragraphs.

Today I made an outline of my introduction of the research paper about procrastination and age relationships. Before I made my first draft, I collected five most related paper with my topic and read each’s introduction everyday and paraphrased each paragraphs into one sentences. The main reason on doing this is to analyze the common structure of introductions so I apcan easily apply it into mine. The papers I analyzed were uploaded below Analysis : Nature of Procrastination Procrastination is a worldwide phenomenon that most of the population at least once had trouble with. Procrastination is treated as troublesome which causes cramming and poor results. Procrastination often results in miserable consequences in our life. Research regarding procrastination is so scarce and lacks resources. The major goal in this paper is to recollect resources and correlations to make a definition of procrastination and provide better understanding to it. The second goal is to expand the field of studying reasons in procrastination and relationships between other factors. Also to explain temporal motivation theory (TMT).