Here's a basic ResearchRabbit workflow that you can master in 10min to fast-track your research 🚀
1. Go to researchrabbit.ai and sign up with your email
2. Click on "New Collection" or "+Collection"
3. Choose a name for your collection: [Project Name]-Mock
4. Click on the green "Add Papers" button
5. Look up keywords related to your project
6. Add 2 to 3 papers to your collection
7. Click on "Similar Works"
8. Use the interactive visualization to look up more works related to your project
9. Add them to your collection
10. Click on "Abstracts" and read them
11. Only keep the papers that are relevant
12. Retweet the first tweet to share it with your friends
13. Follow me @MushtaqBilalPhD for regular tips on academic writing
14. If you want to read an expanded version of this tutorial with screenshots, reply with 👍
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Dec 4
Here's a super-simple workflow to add the citation style of your target journal in Zotero:
1. Open Zotero desktop app.
2. Go to Preferences (Edit→Preferences on a Windows PC) [Not sure where it is on a Mac]
3. Click on "Cite" in Zotero Preferences
4. Click on "Get additional styles"
5. Type the name of your target journal in "Style Search"
6. Click on the name of your target journal
7. Go to Zotero Style Manager to confirm that the citation style has been added
8. Open a blank document in MS Word
9. Click on Document Preferences
10. Select the citation style of your target journal
11. Start drafting your paper
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Dec 3
Academic writing resources developed by Harvard, Purdue, and the University of York (UK) — all free:

A meta-thread 🧵
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Dec 2
Free academic writing resources developed by the University of York (UK):
Academic Writing: A Practical Guide

Contains detailed guides on:
• General writing skills
• Types of academic writing

subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writi…
1. The Writing Process

Tips on:
• How to plan and structure an assignment
• Stages in assignment writing
• How to craft the perfect title for your assignment?

subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writi…
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Dec 1
SciSpace is an incredible (AI-powered) tool to help you understand research papers better.

It can explain and elaborate most academic texts in simple words.

Here's how to get started on it 👇

A step-by-step tutorial with visuals 🧵
Go to typeset.io and sign up. A screenshot of the landing page of SciSpace. A yellow arrow
Once you're signed up, click on "Upload a PDF." A screenshot of the landing page of SciSpace. A yellow arrow
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Nov 30
The academic writing website that received more than 240 million visits last year: Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

The OWL hosts a wealth of FREE resources on:
1. General Writing

Contains detailed guides on:
• Writing style
• Writing process
• Common writing assignments
• Undergrad applications
• Grad school applications
• Community engaged writing

owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_wr…
2. Research and Citation

Contains materials on:
• Conducting research
• Using research
• Various citation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, IEEE)

owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_a…
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Nov 29
A basic Zotero workflow that you can master in 20min to fast-track your research even if you've never used Zotero (for folks who started following me recently:
1. Download and install Zotero
2. Register for a free account
3. Install Zotero Connector for your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). It comes bundled with Safari.
4. Open Zotero. Click File → New Collection
5. Name the collection: [Project Name]-Mock
6. Go to Google Scholar or your university's library
7. Look up keywords related to your project
8. Click on Zotero Connector
9. Select items. Press OK
10. Zotero will add selected items to your library 11. Select all items; right-click; select "Find Available PDFs"
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