PhD Research Proposal & Review
Draft academic research proposals and literature reviews
PhD Research Proposal & Review
Draft academic research proposals and literature reviews
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Description
Transforms research ideas into rigorously structured, clearly argued academic research proposals and literature reviews for PhD applicants across STEM, humanities, and social sciences. You can provide your research topic, core questions, target institutions or advisor directions, and existing papers or materials. The Skill integrates relevant research progress to help organize the theoretical background, current research status, key gaps, and proposed methods, building a targeted research framework for your application. Before formal drafting, it provides a research proposal outline for your confirmation, making it easy to adjust the focus, scope, and length. Once confirmed, it generates a complete proposal of approximately 2,000–4,000 words covering research background, research questions, literature review, methods, timeline, expected contributions, and references, using appropriate academic citation styles and formal register based on your discipline. The content supports Chinese or English output, emphasizing coherent academic discourse, prudent argumentation, and clear research value, while offering diagram suggestions for research frameworks, methodological workflows, or academic impact at key points. The final result is delivered as a Markdown document, accompanied by checklists for structure, citations, and academic expression to facilitate further revision or conversion into Word, PDF, and other formats.
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Why we love this skill
Refines PhD application materials through a five-stage workflow of requirement analysis, literature review, outline confirmation, drafting, and quality check, combining discipline adaptation, standard citations, research gap extraction, and diagram suggestions in formal Chinese and English academic writing.
Best for
Applicants preparing PhD application materials who need to organize research ideas into a formal research proposal and literature review.
How to use this Skill
Provide your input
Provide your research topic, core questions, academic field, target institution or advisor direction, existing papers and materials, and preferred length.
Run the Skill
The Skill reviews the research background, literature status, research gaps, and methods, then generates an outline for your confirmation before writing the complete application material.
Review your result
Receive a rigorously structured research proposal and literature review document covering research questions, methods, timeline, expected contributions, references, and revision checklist.
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