Presentation Applying DeepSeek to Evaluate Students’ Literature Review Writing more

Writing a literature review in English presents significant challenges for EFL undergraduate students in crafting research proposals or papers. While AI tools can aid in sourcing relevant materials, summarizing key concepts, and translating students’ ideas into English, their outputs often remain fragmented, offering limited guidance on constructing a coherent logical structure. This study investigates the pedagogical value of the And, But, Therefore (ABT) narrative framework (Olson, 2015) by analysing its implementation in an English for Academic Purposes course. Seventy-five students enrolled in 2024 applied the ABT framework to organize their literature review sections, with DeepSeek-R1 analysing the frequency of contrastive (BUT) and consequential (THEREFORE) conjunctions in their writing. Students exhibited a noticeably improved ability to synthesize arguments and structure reviews cohesively. Results indicate that explicit training in narrative frameworks enhances students’ capacity to organize academic writing systematically.