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29 entries · 22 prompts, 3 personas, 3 workflows, 1 rules

Scientific writing

Abstracts, papers, theses and grant narratives.

  • Explain research to the public

    Turns a research paper into an accurate plain-language summary, press release, blog post or social thread without hype, keeping caveats, study type and effect sizes. Use for science communication.

  • Respond to peer reviewers

    Drafts a point-by-point response to peer-review comments, giving the change made or a polite, evidenced rebuttal for each, never claiming unmade changes. Use for revise-and-resubmit.

  • Write a paper abstract

    Writes a structured or unstructured abstract within a word limit from a manuscript, keeping every number faithful to the source and showing where each appears. Use before submission.

  • Write a research proposal

    Writes a research or grant proposal section (aims, significance, approach, timeline) mapped to the funder's criteria, with placeholders instead of invented data. Use for grant or thesis proposals.

  • Academic writing coach

    Acts as an academic writing coach who helps researchers find their argument, build a regular writing habit and revise for clarity, while the ideas and the words stay theirs.

  • Academic writing rules

    Standing rules for academic writing that hedge claims to the evidence, define terms, forbid invented citations, keep tense and terminology consistent, and report numbers precisely.

  • Appeal a journal rejection

    Judges whether a journal rejection is worth appealing, then writes a respectful appeal letter that corrects factual errors in the reviews with evidence, or recommends moving on.

  • Shortlist target journals for a manuscript

    Shortlists journals for a manuscript by scope, audience, article type, open-access costs and timelines, ranked in tiers, with facts to verify on each journal's site. For authors before submission.

  • Design a research poster

    Designs a conference poster with a headline finding, layout grid, condensed sections, figures to include and a 60-second walkthrough script. For researchers presenting at conferences.

  • Plan the figures for a paper

    Plans a paper's figures, choosing which results become figures, chart types, panels, labels, colour and accessibility, and writes self-contained captions. For authors preparing a manuscript.

  • Format citations in a reference style

    Converts references to APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE or Vancouver, flags missing fields instead of inventing them, and fixes the matching in-text citations. For students and researchers.

  • Grant proposal track

    Takes a research grant from funder fit to aims, approach, budget justification and a mock review with revisions, pausing for approval between steps. For researchers applying for funding.

  • Paper writing track

    Takes a manuscript from target journal and outline through methods and results, introduction and discussion, title and abstract, and a pre-submission check, pausing for approval between steps.

  • Plan research dissemination

    Plans how to share research findings with each audience, choosing outputs, channels, messengers and timing, and how to tell whether the findings reached and were used.

  • Plan a conference or lab-meeting research talk

    Plans a short research talk for a conference or lab meeting with a one-sentence message, timed slide sequence, figure choices, opening and close, and Q&A preparation. For researchers presenting work.

  • Plan a thesis structure

    Plans a thesis or dissertation structure with each chapter's purpose, the argument flow, word budgets and a writing timeline working back from the deadline. For graduate students.

  • Request data or code from study authors

    Writes a concise request to a paper's authors for data, code or missing results, stating purpose, intended use, data protection commitments and credit, with a polite follow-up.

  • Science communicator

    Acts as a science communicator who makes research vivid and accurate, uses analogies carefully, keeps uncertainty visible and never overstates findings. For researchers, journalists and educators.

  • Thesis advisor

    Acts as a thesis advisor who sharpens the research question, keeps scope realistic, pushes for a clear contribution and sets milestones, with direct, supportive feedback. For graduate students.

  • Thesis track

    Takes a master's or doctoral thesis from proposal through plan, chapter cycles and whole-thesis revision to defence preparation, in gated steps with a supervisor checkpoint at each.

  • Turn a thesis chapter into a paper

    Plans how to turn a thesis chapter into a journal article, deciding the paper's single message, what to cut, how to reframe for a journal audience, and the fit with a target journal.

  • Write a discussion section

    Writes a paper or thesis discussion covering principal findings, comparison with prior work, mechanisms, limitations, implications and future work, matching claims to the evidence. For authors.

  • Write a research impact statement

    Writes a research impact statement or pathway to impact naming beneficiaries, the mechanisms that reach them, activities, indicators and evidence, matched to the funder's or assessment's format.

  • Write a paper introduction

    Writes a manuscript introduction that moves from the field to the gap to the study's aim using the CARS model, citing only supplied sources and using placeholders instead of invented references.

  • Write a journal submission cover letter

    Writes a manuscript submission cover letter stating the contribution, the fit with the journal's scope and the required declarations, in one page an editor can act on. For authors submitting papers.

  • Write a replicable methods section

    Writes a manuscript methods section another researcher could replicate, following the relevant reporting guideline and flagging every missing detail. For authors drafting a paper or thesis.

  • Write paper highlights and summaries

    Writes journal highlights, a graphical abstract concept and a plain-language summary for an accepted or submitted paper, within the journal's limits and true to the results.

  • Write a policy brief

    Turns research findings into a policy brief for decision-makers with the problem, the evidence and its strength, costed options and recommendations. For researchers and think tanks.

  • Write a results section

    Writes a manuscript results section that reports findings in a logical order with exact statistics, effect sizes, confidence intervals and figure references, and no interpretation.