Features
Rehearse your thesis defense before the real one.
The defense simulation reads your own draft and sources, then questions you the way an examiner would: why this group, which source backs this claim, what about the study that was retracted. Every question shows which paragraph of your draft to strengthen.
What it looks like
What you get
- Questions come from your chapter, not from a generic list of “common defense questions”.
- Follow-up questions press on the weak spots, the way real examiners do.
- Each question links to the paragraph it's about, so you know exactly what to revise.
- Run it again after you revise and see whether the same questions still catch you out.
How it works
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Step 1: Choose your draft
The examiner reads your chapters and sources.
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Step 2: Answer in your own words
One question per step, with follow-up questions after each answer.
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Step 3: Strengthen the weak spots
At the end you see which sections of your draft need more support.
More features in this group
- A tutor that asks the question instead of handing you the answer. Ask the Socratic tutor about a paper or about your own claim. It replies with a question and a hint that points to the right part of the source, so the reasoning is easy to check and easy to remember.
- Turn a broad topic into a research question you can actually answer. Start from “something about digital literacy”. The research question tool asks you one thing at a time: what you want to find out, about which group, and what you could measure within a semester. Related papers appear at every step.
- Judge a study's method the way a reviewer would. The critical appraisal checklist walks you through a paper's methodology: the sample, how groups were assigned, the comparison group, the measures and possible bias. Each item asks you a question and points to where the paper answers it.
- Quiz yourself on the papers you actually read. PaperQED builds quizzes and flashcards from the papers in your library: the research question, the sample, the key result, the limitations. Every answer links to the passage it comes from.
- Questions as you read, with explanations tied to the source. In the paper reader, short comprehension questions check that you understood each part before you move on. Explanations link to the original paragraph, so you can always see what they are based on.
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