A glimpse of ChatGPT's revision ability

I used the following prompt to get some valuable suggestions from ChatGPT on quality improvement of an article.

Spot grammar errors in the following text and advise on improvement. Provide the feedback in separate sections explicitly indicating places to revise.

GPT gave the following response:

Revisions:
1. “post competency” should be revised as “post-competency” for consistency.
2. “base” can be changed to “training base” for clarification.
3. “have problems such as weak awareness” can be revised to “face challenges such as inadequate awareness” for better clarity.
4. “awareness of staffing qualified teaching resources” can be rephrased as “awareness of the availability of qualified teaching resources” for clarity.
5. “staffing teachers” can be revised to “teaching staff” for better phrasing.
6. “adapting a multi-level teacher qualification” can be changed to “adopting a multi-level teacher qualification” for accuracy.
7. “training mode” can be added after “teacher qualification” to improve clarity.
8. “Implementation of various tasks regarding SRT” can be rephrased as “implementation of various SRT tasks” for better flow.
9. “clinical comprehensive ability of residents” can be revised to “clinical capabilities of residents” for better phrase usage and clarity.

The response is interesting. Most of the suggestions on revision are appropriate and much better than on-the-market tools such as free-version LanguageTool and Ginger Software. Since ChatGPT has spotted some profound errors ommitted by other tools. However, ChatGPT may talk nonsense sometimes. That’s why you may find some of the suggestions are non-applicable to the text.

Let’s go through the suggestions one by one.

Suggestion 1: Incorrect. ChatGPT has mistaken the phrase “post-competency” as “after competency”. The word “post” here should mean “job” or “position”.

Suggestion 2: Good proposal. But it contradicts itself by previously suggesting that “each training base” be revised to “each base”.

Suggestion 3: Great. This revision makes the text more native-like. “inadequate” is better than “weak” in modifying awareness.

Suggestion 4: Wonderful. The original expression may cause misunderstanding. The revised version is much more clear.

Suggestion 5: Good job.

Suggestion 6: Splendid! ChatGPT spotted a potential mispronunciation of the word “adapt” (which should be “adopt”).

Suggestion 7: Redundant suggestion. Not actionable.

Suggestion 8: Not bad. Briefer after revision.

Suggestion 9: Good. More native-like after revision since the phrase “clinical comprehensive ability” rarely occurs on the Internet.

Other valuable suggestions include:

“is becoming mature” => “is maturing” “In order to” => “To” (removed “In order”) “standardize and normalize” => “standardize” (removed “and normalize”) “pinpointed regulation” => “precise regulations” (wiser word choice and correct a noun for plural form) “a detailed training system” => “a comprehensive training system” (wiser word choice)