Research guides
Do rigorous research, from the first idea to the final publication
Deep, practical guides on the craft of research: how to run a literature review, read papers efficiently, build an evidence base you can defend, manage citations, write with LaTeX, and keep your work reproducible. Everything here reflects how Research Woven keeps a research project connected end to end.
The Modern Research Workflow: From First Idea to Published Paper
A concrete, end-to-end research workflow: frame questions, read sources, take notes, build evidence, form claims, draft, cite, and submit with provenance intact.
How to Conduct a Systematic Literature Review: A Step by Step Guide
A rigorous, reproducible guide to systematic literature reviews: PICO questions, Boolean search strategies, PRISMA screening, Cohen's kappa, data extraction, and synthesis.
How to Read and Annotate Research Papers Efficiently
A concrete method for reading research papers fast: the three-pass technique, non-linear IMRaD reading, disciplined highlighting, and literature notes that become evidence.
From Sources to Claims: Building an Evidence Base You Can Defend
Build defensible research claims: the source to highlight to note to evidence to claim chain, provenance, the Toulmin model, triangulation, and handling disconfirming evidence.
Citation Styles Explained: APA, MLA, Chicago, and BibTeX for Researchers
A practical guide to APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, and IEEE citation styles, plus BibTeX, DOIs, in-text citations, reference managers, and avoiding citation rot.
Writing a Thesis or Dissertation: Structure, Workflow, and Momentum
A graduate student's guide to thesis structure, IMRaD, chapter word budgets, writing early, version control for prose, feedback loops, and viva prep.
LaTeX for Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Researchers
A practical LaTeX tutorial for researchers: document structure, equations, figures, BibTeX and biblatex, journal templates, and how to avoid the common pitfalls.
Research Reproducibility: Data Management, Methods, and Archiving
A practical guide to open, reproducible research: data management plans, FAIR data, method documentation, code versioning, pre-registration, DOIs, and archiving.
How to Make a Choropleth Map (Free, No GIS Software)
A step-by-step guide to making a choropleth map in your browser: load a shapefile or GeoJSON, join your data, choose a classification and colour ramp, and export a publication figure.
How to Map Data From a Spreadsheet or CSV
Turn a spreadsheet into a map. Learn how to join a CSV of values to region boundaries on a shared key, avoid the join pitfalls that lose rows, and map the result for free.
Choropleth Classification: Quantile, Equal Interval, Jenks, Std Dev
How the classification method changes a choropleth map. A plain-language guide to quantile, equal interval, natural breaks (Jenks), and standard deviation, with when to use each.
Shapefile vs GeoJSON: Which Format for Spatial Data?
A clear comparison of the shapefile and GeoJSON formats for spatial data: how each stores geometry and attributes, their strengths and limits, coordinate systems, and how to open both.
How to Make a Population Density Map
Make a population density map the right way: turn population counts into people per square kilometre, classify sensibly, and export. A free, no-install browser workflow.
How to Open a Shapefile Online (No Software to Install)
Open and view a shapefile in your browser without QGIS or ArcGIS. What files you need, how to handle the zip, and how to view the attribute table, map values, and export.
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