Reading widely is not the same as knowing where the field stands. These prompts organize the literature into themes, show which claims are contested, and end where the useful work begins — a gap statement specific enough to build a study on.
What's Included
- Search strategy so you know what you deliberately excluded.
- Theme synthesis with the key papers grouped under each.
- Contested claims flagged rather than averaged into consensus.
- Gap statement written as a research question you could actually run.
How To Use
- Set the topic boundary and the years in scope.
- Generate the theme map and read against it, not from scratch.
- Keep every source as a record so citations stay traceable.
- Turn the gap into a testable question.
Find the papers with the academic source finder, sharpen the question with the research question generator, then design the test with hypothesis testing prompts.