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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.

Start here · Research workflow

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.

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Literature review

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.

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Reading and notes

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.

10 min read
Argument and 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.

11 min read
Citations

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.

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Thesis writing

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.

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LaTeX and tools

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.

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Reproducibility

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.

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