FIELD GUIDE / 9 MIN READHow to read a research paper without getting lost.
Most people read a paper front to back, once, and finish with a vague feeling. Six short passes give you the question, the evidence, and an honest verdict on what the paper is allowed to claim.
Read the guide →CHECKLIST / 6 MIN READGetting 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.
Read →CHECKLIST / 6 MIN READCiting 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.
Read →FIELD GUIDE / 9 MIN READReading 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.
Read →FIELD NOTE / 5 MIN READWriting 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.
Read →FIELD GUIDE / 10 MIN READChoosing 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.
Read →FIELD GUIDE / 8 MIN READWhat 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.
Read →WORKSHEET / 7 MIN READTurning 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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