Respond to below article with at least two substantive responses that each include at least 1 scholarly, professional, or textbook reference with accompanying in-text-citation to support any paraphrased, summarized, or quoted material.

• Part I: My working thesis will be centered around the effectiveness of universities in maintaining academic integrity while integrating artificial intelligence tools as part of the curriculum. The research would require a correlational model to examine the relationship between perceived academic integrity and the use of artificial intelligence tools.

Part II: Before moving over to academics, I worked for 20+ years in government defense as a contractor, creating training programs for the Department of Defense. I have a certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP). Part of that certification and the processes for project management include a specific domain in quality management (PMI, 2021). To me, the peer review process overlaps what is considered quality assurance and quality control in project management. In that field, quality is a group effort. The stakeholders, the project team, and often the customers must agree on the scope of the project (in this case, the research) and agree on the planned results. From the perspective presented in the blog, the approval of the end product (research results) could be a situation of wink-wink, nudge nudge (Gelman, 2020). However, the success of projects can also be measured by the success of the end product. If others come along and poke holes in it, the consumers (others in the field) may not trust your reputation as a PM for the next project. In my opinion, the quality of research should follow a similar quality assurance/quality control process as thatof project management. It should be collaborative and rely on the ethics of the teams involved, including all potential stakeholders.

Part III: The existence of poor writing is similar to my views on the quality control of projects. Each stakeholder,which includes the researcher and writer, as well as the journal and editors, must ensure the best quality writing in their publications. If a journal consistently produces poor products, then the field or industry must provide pushback. No one is going to keep buying cake when the bakers continue to forget the sugar.

Part IV: Open-ended Question: What processes do you use to ensure you have strong writing?

References

Gelman, A. (2020, June 11). Bla blab la PEER REVIEW bla bla bla [Blog]. Columbia University Stateistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/06/11/bla-bla-bla-peer-review-bla-bla-bla/

Project management Institute (PMI). (2021). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and the standard for project management (7th ed.). Project Management Institute.