Lesson 1218 of 1570
Science Fair Lit Review: How Elicit Builds Yours in an Afternoon
ISEF and Regeneron projects need 30+ paper reviews — Elicit can summarize 200 abstracts in an hour you'd otherwise lose.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2ISEF
- 3literature review
- 4Elicit
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Section 1
The big idea
The lit review section sinks more science fair projects than experimental error. Elicit was built for grad students; teens get the same speedup.
Some examples
- Prompt Elicit: 'What does the literature say about microplastics in freshwater fish?'
- Ask Elicit to extract methods and sample size from each paper
- Use Elicit's 'critique' feature to find weak studies you can disqualify
- Cross-check with Google Scholar to confirm citation counts
Try it!
Pick your science fair topic. Run it through Elicit free tier. Save the top 10 papers to a Notion/Docs folder before you write a word of your project.
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