Abstract:
Research students have difficulty following at
least some steps in research methodology. Nowadays, computing
technology has made it easy for researchers to execute the steps
with the support of software tools. Although many research
students gradually manage to conduct the research, some find it
challenging to write the thesis in time. This issue stems from
separating the conduct of research from writing the thesis. This
paper presents the extension to our Intelligent Personal
Research Assistant, InPRA, to enable a researcher to write the
thesis incrementally while doing the research. Here, we have
introduced an intelligent writing template, which guides the
writing process differently from the order of chapters of the
thesis. The intelligent template is also integrated with tools such
as Zotero, MS Word, and Grammarly software. The
incremental writing process enables the generation of research
proposals, progress reports, conference papers, theses, and
journal papers. The writing extension to InPRA has been
evaluated with research students at the postgraduate level.
