Skill UI

This guide helps scholars assess whether their literary or language-studies project meets the broad, general-interest standards of PMLA. It provides a detailed "fit test" framework, ensuring the work focuses on a significant problem, maintains broad scholarly interest, and presents a sustained argument rather than a descriptive survey. Useful for framing academic essays or deciding between different publication venues.

This guide details the rigorous, unique evaluation process for academic articles and essays at Yale Law Journal (YLJ). Unlike traditional peer review, student editors conduct anonymous evaluations, focusing heavily on the originality of the claim, the completeness of the apparatus, and crucially, a thorough 'source-pull' where every citation must be rigorously verified and supported by the text. Use this to understand how to structure and prepare manuscripts for scholarly publication.

A guide for scholars on structuring academic essays to stake a clear, significant contribution within a broad critical conversation. It teaches how to move beyond simple citation dumps by identifying the core scholarly problem, engaging diverse critical traditions, and pre-empting counter-arguments, ensuring the work resonates with both specialists and generalists in the field.

A skill for analyzing and creating literature in Lao She's Beijing-flavored style, focusing on citizen life, humor and pathos, dramatic dialogue, and plain description. Ideal for writing stories, essays, or scripts with vernacular Beijing language and social observation.

Adopt the critical realist perspective of Lu Xun, a founding father of modern Chinese literature. Provides frameworks for national character critique, sharp satire, restrained narrative, and hopeful struggle against despair. Suitable for essays, social analysis, and literary writing that demand a cold, penetrating mind.

A skill that emulates Sanmao's literary thinking for wanderlust prose, desert romance, freedom spirit, and emotional storytelling. Use it to write first-person lyrical essays, love narratives, and reflections on life and death in a sincere, poetic style inspired by the Taiwanese author Sanmao.

Adopt the contemplative perspective of Chinese author Shi Tiesheng to explore life, death, suffering, and transcendence. Ideal for writing reflective essays, handling existential questions, and finding meaning through inner monologue and imagery like the temple grounds.

Complete study aid for the California Bar Exam: essays across 13 subjects, Performance Test, and MBE practice, with rule blocks, memorizable IRAC paragraphs, drilling, grading, and exam-day strategy.