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title: Making the Invisible Visible
subtitle: Session 02 -- Digest
author-meta: Clément Aubert
date: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
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lang: en
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documentclass: scrartcl
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keywords:
- Learning Community
- Routine activities
- Efficiency
- Augusta University
- Exploring the mundane
- Modeling the invisible
- Tacit knowledge
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# Writing Guides

- [Illinois Institute of Technology’s CARS Model Library Guide](https://guides.library.iit.edu/cars)
- [CARS Model Chapter](https://researchwrit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/article_swales_cars-model.pdf)

The CARS model, in a nutshell:
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    1. Establish a research territory (context, why does it matter?, what are the key concerns in field?)
    2. Establish a niche (what is the gap? Something is either wrong, missing, or unclear)
    3. Occupy that niche.

 
# Research and AI Tools

- [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/)
- [Research Rabbit](https://www.researchrabbit.ai/)
- [Scite](https://scite.ai/)
- [Elicit](http://elicit.com/)

# Additional Comments

- A figure should come with a ~100 words description (Mustafa Culha)
- The usage of "I" is always very problematic (Andrew Goss)
- If a sentence needs to be read twice to be understood, it needs to be re-written (Nicole Meyer)