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Study & Research → Summarization
Rules for summarizing a document or multiple sources faithfully: length targets, fidelity to the source, structure, and exact preservation of numbers and quotes.
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Study & Research → Citations
Rules for formatting citations correctly and consistently: choosing one style (APA, MLA, or Chicago) and sticking to it, in-text versus bibliography formatting, citing only sources actually read, quote-versus-paraphrase discipline, plagiarism-safe practice, and reference manager hygiene.
Study & Research → Study Plans
Rules for building study plans that actually prepare someone for an exam: backward planning from the exam date, spacing and interleaving, active recall over rereading, realistic session sizing, weak-topic prioritization, and review cadence.
Study & Research → Flashcards
Rules for writing spaced-repetition flashcards that actually build recall: the minimum information principle, active-recall phrasing, cloze deletion, and deck structure for Anki-style study.
Study & Research → Other
Rules for taking notes that are actually usable later: own-words capture over transcription, atomic notes with links, separating capture from organizing, progressive summarization, retrieval-friendly titles, and a review loop that actually happens.
Rules for writing a literature review that synthesizes rather than summarizes: thematic organization instead of paper-by-paper summaries, contradiction mapping, gap identification, source quality tiers, and scope discipline.
Rules for writing academic essays with a clear argument: the thesis as one arguable sentence, paragraph structure of claim plus evidence plus analysis, counterargument handling, intro and conclusion discipline, signposting, and separating the editing pass from drafting.
Rules for the final stretch of exam preparation: past-paper practice under timed conditions, error logs, topic triage by marks-per-effort, the last-week taper, day-of routine, and what cramming can and cannot do.