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OPEN RESOURCES / START HERE

Use these when the work stops moving.

Field guides for the exact moments a paper becomes confusing, a question stays vague or a draft stops improving.

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CHECKLIST / 6 MIN READ

Getting feedback that improves the draft.

"Any thoughts?" gets you comma corrections. Specific questions get you the structural problem you could not see. How to brief a reader, and what to do with the answer.

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CHECKLIST / 6 MIN READ

Citing properly, and never worrying about plagiarism again.

Where accidental plagiarism actually comes from, the difference between a paraphrase and a reshuffled sentence, and a source log that takes ten seconds per paper.

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FIELD GUIDE / 9 MIN READ

Reading numbers without a statistics degree.

What p = .03 does and does not mean, why effect size matters more, how sample size changes everything, and the four sentences that get you through most results sections.

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FIELD NOTE / 5 MIN READ

Writing a limitation that strengthens your argument.

"The sample size was small and further research is needed" protects nobody. Three weak limitations, rewritten in front of you into ones a reviewer would respect.

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FIELD GUIDE / 10 MIN READ

Choosing a method that fits your question.

Surveys, interviews, secondary data, experiments: what each one can honestly claim, what it cannot, and the sample sizes and timelines to expect for a first project.

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FIELD GUIDE / 8 MIN READ

What a literature review is actually for.

If your review reads as "Smith (2019) found... Adeyemi (2021) found...", it is a reading list with paragraph breaks. Here is how to read for the disagreement instead, and the table that gets you there.

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WORKSHEET / 7 MIN READ

Turning an interest into a question you can answer.

An interest is a topic. A question has a population, an outcome, and something being compared. Here is the conversion, done out loud on three real examples.

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FIELD NOTES / OPEN

Research becomes clearer when you can see the work.

Read the paper, mark the claim, compare the evidence, then keep the note that changed your mind.

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READING DESKGUIDE / 01
Students working through research material in class
WORKING SESSIONNOTES / OPEN
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OBSERVATIONMETHOD / FIELD
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EXPLANATIONPRESENT / 06

ENROLLMENT / OPEN

Start with the guide. Stay for the work.

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