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 👍
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
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
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"