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Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows.
Passed 24 of 24 test cases with the skill, and 22 of 24 without it.
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A PhD student in mass communications needs to build a systematic literature review on digital media framing of elections. They plan to rely solely on PubMed and ERIC. What field-specific databases should they search instead to cover communication research comprehensively?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Recommends searching Communication Abstracts or ComAbstracts. | Missed | Passed |
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Systematic approaches for scholarly writing, research design, and academic communication.
## Crafting a research question
### The FINER criteria
- **F**easible: Can you actually do this research?
- **I**nteresting: Does it matter to the field?
- **N**ovel: Does it add new knowledge?
- **E**thical: Can it be done ethically?
- **R**elevant: Does it address a real problem?
### Question types
| Type | Purpose | Example |
|------|---------|---------|
| Descriptive | Document phenomena | "What are the characteristics of X?" |
| Comparative | Compare groups/conditions | "How does X differ between groups?" |
| Correlational | Examine relationships | "Is there a relationship between X and Y?" |
| Causal | Establish causation | "Does X cause Y?" |
| Exploratory | Generate hypotheses | "What factors might explain X?" |
### Refining your question
Start broad → Narrow progressively
Draft 1: "How does social media affect politics?"
Draft 2: "How does Twitter use affect political polarization?"
Draft 3: "How does exposure to partisan Twitter accounts affect
political attitude polarization among US adults?"
Draft 4: "Does increased exposure to ideologically homogeneous Twitter
feeds increase affective polarization among politically
engaged US adults aged 18-35?"
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