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Draws PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews, checks that every number adds up, and exports sharp SVG, PNG and PDF files.
A good first tool for each stage of a project, chosen by the ResearchKit team.
Helps you shape a focused research question, explaining each question type and giving feedback on your own wording.
Helps you understand, compare and justify research designs against your own project, without choosing one for you.
Works out a sample size from your assumptions, shows every step of the working, and explains what each assumption means.
Recommends statistical analyses from your variables, hypotheses, design and sample, and explains why each one suits your project.
Builds temporary APA 7 references and in-text citations for books, journal articles and web pages in APA Style, 7th edition.
Counts words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, and estimates reading and speaking time.
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Draws PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews, checks that every number adds up, and exports sharp SVG, PNG and PDF files.
Organise, compare and synthesise the studies in your literature review, and see the repeated methods, variables and gaps across them.
Builds publication-ready research tables in APA, IEEE, Harvard, Chicago or MLA style, from your data, your results or your project, ready to paste into Word.
Turns your data into publication-ready charts for theses, journals and reports, with APA- and IEEE-friendly styles, text alternatives and sharp exports.
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Find, format and check citations in the major academic styles.
Answer four questions to find the citation style you most likely need, and see exactly why it was recommended.
Builds temporary APA 7 references and in-text citations for books, journal articles and web pages in APA Style, 7th edition.
Formats Works Cited entries and in-text citations in MLA Style, 9th edition.
Formats reference list entries and author–date text citations in Chicago style, 18th edition.
Formats full notes, shortened notes and bibliography entries in Chicago style, 18th edition.
Formats numbered IEEE references and in-text citations, including conference papers.
Formats Harvard references and author-date citations in a defined profile based on Cite Them Right.
Checks reference lists and citations in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, IEEE and Harvard for structure, missing details, duplicates, order and mismatched citations.
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Measure and check your text against assignment requirements.
Counts words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, and estimates reading and speaking time.
Counts characters, with and without spaces, and the words, sentences and paragraphs that make them up.
Estimates how long a text takes to read silently, or to present aloud.
Measures sentence length, word length and paragraph structure, and estimates how many pages your text fills.
Counts paragraphs and shows how many words each has, with the average, shortest and longest.
Counts sentences and shows how many words each has, with the average, shortest and longest.
Estimates how hard your text is to read with five established formulas, and explains what each one measures.
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Plan studies and analyse results, with every method explained.
Works out a sample size from your assumptions, shows every step of the working, and explains what each assumption means.
Helps you identify statistical tests that may suit your research question and data, and explains why each may fit.
Calculate selected standardized effects from reported summary statistics, with formulas and assumptions shown.
Connects a research question and selected analysis to IBM SPSS Statistics procedures, output tables, assumptions and reporting tools.
Plans the sample size a study needs, or the power it will have, for seven common designs, with every assumption stated.
Calculates confidence intervals for means, proportions, their differences and correlations, showing the standard error, critical value and every step.
Recommends statistical analyses from your variables, hypotheses, design and sample, and explains why each one suits your project.
Explains the statistical results you already have: what they mean, whether they are significant, and how they bear on your hypotheses, objectives and research question.
Explains which assumptions to check before each statistical analysis, how to check them, the usual thresholds, and what to do if they fail.
Turns your data into publication-ready charts for theses, journals and reports, with APA- and IEEE-friendly styles, text alternatives and sharp exports.
Builds publication-ready research tables in APA, IEEE, Harvard, Chicago or MLA style, from your data, your results or your project, ready to paste into Word.
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Shape the questions, objectives and design of a research project.
Works through the six layers of the research onion one at a time, explaining each choice and how well your choices fit together.
Helps you shape a focused research question, explaining each question type and giving feedback on your own wording.
Turns your research question into a general objective and specific objectives, with transparent alignment and quality checks.
Turns your research question, objectives and variables into null and alternative hypothesis drafts, with every check explained.
Brings your variables together from your project, and helps you define, operationalise and measure each one.
Draws a conceptual framework figure from your variables and hypotheses, which you can edit and export as SVG, PNG or PDF.
Evaluates your own research titles for clarity, completeness and fit with your project, explaining every point without rewriting a word.
Helps you understand, compare and justify research designs against your own project, without choosing one for you.
Helps you define your population and understand, compare and justify sampling techniques, without choosing one for you.
Assembles a structured questionnaire from your variables and indicators, explains where every question comes from, and exports it to Word, PDF and Markdown.
Search scholarly literature by topic, see which keywords and topics recur, and copy citations to start a reading list.
Organise, compare and synthesise the studies in your literature review, and see the repeated methods, variables and gaps across them.
Draws PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews, checks that every number adds up, and exports sharp SVG, PNG and PDF files.