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This skill teaches how to dramatically improve the accuracy of historical research queries. When searching for information about a historical figure, rather than relying on generic facts (like era or nationality), users should identify and prioritize the most unique, specific, or niche details—such as a unique object, a rare event, or an uncommon biographical fact. By using these distinctive details as quoted search anchors, the search results become highly targeted, overcoming the limitations of broad, general queries.

An evidence-based coach providing guidance on fundamental wellness pillars: sleep hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and stress management. It uses behavior change science and motivational interviewing principles to help users build sustainable, lasting health habits. This tool is educational and motivational, designed to support general wellness journeys, and always emphasizes the critical need to consult healthcare professionals for diagnosis or treatment.

A specialized technique for locating the full legal birth name of European actors, particularly French actors, who frequently use stage names. This process involves a two-phase search: first, identifying the stage name using general career clues (films, era, director); second, using specific queries like "birth name," "née," or "nom de naissance" to bypass the stage name and find the legal name. Ideal for deep biographical research.

This guide helps researchers strategically assess whether their empirical microeconomics project is best suited for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It provides a structured framework to test the project's causal design, scope, and cross-field appeal, ensuring the question is 'AEJ: Applied-shaped' rather than being too general (AER) or too specialized (Field Journal).

This guide provides a structured methodology for articulating the unique and marginal contribution of a scholarly paper, particularly within macroeconomics. It teaches authors how to bridge the gap between theoretical modeling (quantitative-theory) and data-driven evidence (identified-empirical), ensuring that the novelty and scope are clearly communicated to a broad, general expert audience.

A comprehensive guide for academic researchers detailing how to structure and write a precise, point-by-point rebuttal letter following a major journal's Request for Revision (R&R). It covers addressing referee concerns regarding proof correctness, theoretical generality, and scope, ensuring the revision plan is rigorous and addresses the editor's central concerns.

This skill is a comprehensive tool designed to help authors evaluate the suitability of their economics manuscript for AER: Insights. It guides users through assessing key criteria such as the general interest of a single result, the required conciseness, methodological strength, and adherence to the journal's specific short-format house style and submission guidelines. Use it for venue selection and manuscript re-framing.

This guide helps researchers assess whether their complex project contains a single, crisp, general-interest insight suitable for short-format academic journals. It provides a rigorous framework to filter out multi-result papers, ensuring the core contribution is publishable, significant, and self-contained.

This guide helps researchers assess whether their education topic has broad significance for a general journal like AERJ, and how to define the dominant research lens (Policy, Teaching, Development, etc.). It provides a structured methodology for sharpening focus and improving academic framing.

A comprehensive guide designed to help researchers select, articulate, and defend the appropriate interpretive lens and scale for historical arguments. Whether focusing on social, cultural, global, or microhistory, this skill assists in structuring a robust methodology, ensuring that theory is always grounded in primary evidence, and preventing common academic pitfalls like anachronism or over-generalization.

This skill provides a rigorous framework for political scientists to pre-test their research projects against the standards of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It evaluates whether a topic has a sharp, generalizable question, demonstrates strong causal identification, provides a substantive theoretical contribution, and fits the appropriate submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence). Use this before committing significant time to writing.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for authors submitting to the American Journal of Sociology (AJS). It details AJS's unique house style (which is NOT the ASA style guide), covering citation mechanics, note formatting, reference lists, and manuscript structure. Crucially, it advises writers on how to structure their arguments to be theoretically ambitious and legible to a generalist audience, ensuring the core contribution is immediately apparent.