Features
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.
What it looks like
What you get
- Narrow a vague topic into a focused question over a few rounds of questions.
- Related papers at each step show what has already been studied.
- Arrive at your proposal seminar with a question you can explain and defend.
How it works
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Step 1: Start broad
Begin with your topic.
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Step 2: Narrow it down
Three stages of questions help you choose population, variables and scope.
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Step 3: Read related papers
You get related papers; you write the final research question yourself.
More features in this group
- 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then questions you the way an examiner would: why this group, which source backs this claim, what about the study that was retracted.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.
- 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.
- 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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