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A comprehensive guide for transforming descriptive academic material into a sharp, contestable, and thesis-driven argument. This skill helps scholars structure their research papers, moving beyond mere surveys or descriptions to make claims that can be disputed and defended with evidence and rigorous method, suitable for high-level scholarly journals.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide for structuring advanced humanities essays, particularly for major academic journals. It emphasizes building a clear, thesis-driven argument that unfolds naturally, avoiding rigid IMRaD formats. Use it when outlining, restructuring confusing drafts, or needing to ensure the argument's significance remains visible throughout the body.

This comprehensive guide teaches advanced researchers how to structure and articulate the theoretical and methodological framework of scholarly papers, particularly in the humanities and religious studies. It emphasizes methodological self-awareness, guiding authors to explicitly name their analytical lens (e.g., postcolonial, phenomenological), demonstrate how the chosen method drives the reading, and maintain critical reflexivity to elevate the paper beyond mere description.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for developing robust, theory-driven hypotheses in accounting research, especially for high-impact academic journals. It teaches researchers how to transition from observing mere correlations to formulating hypotheses grounded in established economic theories, such as agency theory, information economics, and positive accounting theory. The process emphasizes identifying the core economic friction, naming the acting agents and their incentives, and deriving directional, falsifiable, and a priori predictions.

This guide assists researchers in transforming vague datasets or observations into robust, positive, and economics-driven research questions suitable for prestigious accounting journals (like JAE). It teaches key concepts, such as identifying economic friction, distinguishing between normative and positive questions, establishing plausible identification strategies, and mapping the topic to specific academic domains.

This guide polishes academic prose to meet the rigorous standards of top economics and accounting journals (e.g., JAE). It ensures the writing is precise, hypothesis-driven, and structured according to positive-accounting tradition. It covers mandatory elements like structured sections (numbered), Harvard author-date referencing, and required packaging (Highlights, Keywords, JEL codes).

A guide for academic researchers to determine if a consumer phenomenon belongs in the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) or a related journal (like JCR or JMR). It helps set the scope, confirm the psychological mechanism, and select the appropriate manuscript type (e.g., Research Report vs. full Article), ensuring the contribution is theory-driven and experimentally testable.

A comprehensive guide for refining academic manuscripts, particularly for top-tier journals. It teaches authors how to shift the narrative focus from mere behavioral outcomes ("X affects Y") to the underlying psychological mechanisms. It ensures the writing is APA-scientific, highly economical, and process-led, guiding the structure of the introduction, abstract, and theory section to clearly articulate the conceptual 'why'.

This guide details the unique, editor-driven submission process for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP). It advises authors on managing scope, length, and framing when working with an editorial team, rather than anonymous referees. Key strategies include treating the proposal as a contract, prioritizing accessibility for a broad audience, and negotiating scope early in the process.

A guide for developing robust, theory-driven hypotheses for top-tier international business journals (e.g., JIBS). It focuses on specifying cross-level logic (country/culture $\rightarrow$ firm/individual), identifying boundary conditions, and grounding arguments in established IB theoretical traditions. It teaches how to move beyond merely running data in a foreign context to making the international environment itself a causal variable.

This specialized tool guides researchers in critically evaluating if an academic idea or dataset qualifies as a genuine, theory-contributing international-business phenomenon. It implements a rigorous multi-gate test, analyzing the phenomenon, level of analysis, international theory contribution, and cross-national variation needed for high-impact publishing in journals like JIBS.

This tool is designed for the final polish of academic manuscripts intended for high-impact international business journals (e.g., JIBS). It ensures the prose is phenomenon-driven, explicitly states the International Business (IB) theory contribution, maintains disciplined and non-essentializing cross-cultural language, and adheres to stringent style guide conventions, including word count and citation formatting. Use this when the core argument is solid but the writing requires professional structural and stylistic refinement for publication.