Onyekachi Peter Onuoha

Digital Africanist, DH Scholar on African Literature, Digital Culturc& Creative Writing @University of Calabar. Structural editor. Idea developer & Critic.

[Emmanuel Tsekleves @PhDtoProf]

Step-by-step guide to write an introduction that convinces reviewers to accept and your audience to read more

Are you writing brilliant research but getting rejected because your introductions put reviewers to sleep?

This framework transforms rejection into acceptance 🧵

[Talk2veee @talk2veee]

Still on family patterns..

Have you seen families where all the people that married ended up as early widows/widowers, while the rest became single mums or dads without explanation???…

Read 👇🏼

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

What is a systemtic review and how to get started on one:

Before we get started on a systematic review, we need to understand a couple of points, the first one being the difference between primary research and secondary research.

Primary research involves collecting new data. Experiments, trials, case studies, and interviews are a few examples of primary research.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

How to figure out if a text is AI-generated without any apps (and with a bit of common sense):

1. Words:
By now, everyone knows that ChatGPT overuses words like delve, intricate, realm, and tapestry. If these words appear frequently in a text, chances are it's AI-generated.

2. Sentence Structure:
For some reason, AI overuses participial phrases, especially present participial phrases.

[Quick grammar lesson
A participle is a word formed using a verb (cry, burn), but used as an adjective (crying baby, burning wood).

A participial phrase is a group of words that modify a noun. These phrases provide extra information about a noun.

Example:
He sat by the fire, looking out the window.
She entered the room, smiling brightly.

Here the part of the sentence after the comma is a participial phrase.

AI uses present participial phrases quite frequently. These phrases start with a word that ends with -ing, like "looking" and "smiling" in the examples above.]

AI-generated texts will have several sentences containing present participial phrases (sometimes one in each paragraph).

3. Perfect Structure
AI-generated texts will have a perfect structure: a perfectly written introduction and a perfectly written conclusion with clear rhetorical signposts like "In conclusion" etc.

Every paragraph will have a perfect topic sentence. Between paragraphs, you will see, perfect transition sentences.

It's not that a human can't produce a perfectly structured piece of writing. It's just that it takes several drafts to polish the structure. If a student turns in a pefectly structured piece of writing in a short span of time, chances are the text is AI-generated.

4. Perfect Punctuation
AI-generated texts will have perfect punctuation and a bunch of em dashes (—) thrown in.

None of these features alone mean that a text is AI-generated. For example, if a text contains several em dashes, it doesn't automatically mean it's AI-generated.

But if a text contains pefectly structured paragraphs with sentence containing words like delve/intricate with participial phrases, chances are it's AI-generated.

If you use ChatGPT, you can customize it, so it doesn't use words like delve/intricate and avoids overusing participial phrases. You can also ask it not to write pefect topic/transition sentences and muddle up the punctuation. Always reword/rephrase whatever text AI gives you.

If you're a student who want to use AI to avoid learning how to write, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Writing helps you clarify your thought processes and articulate your ideas precisely. You want to be able to do that.

[Namita Waikar नमिता वाईकर نمیتا وائکر @NamitaWaikar]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Cultural Fellowship 2025
Shillim Inst invites emerging artists, researchers & cultural practitioners - apply for 6-mnth fully supported fellowship on: Documentation of Dalit Music in the Pawna Catchment Area, Maval Taluka Maharashtra
#DalitBuddhistMusic

[RAZOR BLADE @razorblade300]

Wtf! We are so backwards in Nigeria🇳🇬🤦
So our aviation doesn't have provisions for people with disabilities to board a plane easily without stress?

Even airpeace nor try at all! What's this? Are still living in the 80s?
Tag the authorities to this post, we can do better 🤦🇳🇬

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

After two years, we return sharper, bolder, and more determined to spotlight the stories that matter.

#TheCrisisRoom #MalnutritionCrisis #Nigeria
https://t.co/q6FWPW4dGv

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

Websites archiving the Biafra war are allegedly targeted and blocked by the Nigerian government. Is history now being censored?
https://t.co/7swotg57Zg

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

Blockage of Biafra Memory Websites Highlights Disturbing Pattern in Nigeria
https://t.co/7swotg57Zg

[Calcutta Research Group @MCRG_CRG]

Call for Applications! Workshop on "Cities, Migrants, and Insecurities"

Apply by 31 July 2025.
Application Link: https://t.co/wHYde4SvF8

For queries, write to [email protected] with
the subject line “Winter Workshop 2025”

#cities
#city #migrants #insecurity

[Chavey 𝕏 @_Chavey]

Because one day… Ada will smile for the camera again.
And that day, the real story will drop.
The one she can’t walk away from.

They taught me a lesson:
Everybody has a price.
But they forgot one thing.
Some of us are too broke to sell our souls.

[ICAS:MP @icas_mp]

📢Call for Applications: ICAS:MP Fellowships 2026–27

Apply now for a residential writing fellowship at ICAS:MP, New Delhi, an interdisciplinary space for critical, globally engaged research.

🔗Apply here: https://t.co/nyRSHhXrE5
#ICASMP #FellowshipOpportunity

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Getting past peer review is a challenge every researcher faces.

Paper Wizard is an AI app that can help you get past peer review.

Featured in Nature, scientists are calling it "the best [tool] for spotting statistical and methodological issues."

Here's how to use it:

[Onyekachi Peter Onuoha @onyipoet]

On the 3rd of June 2024, Dulari Lim reached out to me and said, “ESP-2371 will be sent to you to complete the proofreading in 3 days. Thanks a lot for your support and patience.” Well, I was ghosted after the above-mentioned mail, and I wrote to the new journal editor,

[Onyekachi Peter Onuoha @onyipoet]

On the 29th of May 2024, Nancy Lim wrote to me and said, “We apologise for the delayed response. We have taken note of the manuscript and are currently proofreading it. We will publish it as soon as possible,” end of quote.