How to Calculate Sample Size with Power Simulation
An underpowered study can't be rescued after the fact. Here's how to calculate sample size by simulation — before you collect a single data point.
How to Build a Research Writing Team That Actually Helps
Great papers are team productions — if you bring the right person in at the right stage and ask in a way they can act on. Here's the staged approach.
How to Choose a Research Question (Using the Notes You Already Have)
Staring at your data hoping a paper appears? Choose your research question the other way: start from what the field wants, then match your data to it.
How to Write a Literature Review Without Drowning in Notes
Your literature review is turning into an eight-page list? That's a synthesis problem. Here's the search → note → group → write workflow that fixes it.
How to Write an Academic Paper Faster (Don't Write It in Order)
Staring at a blank "Introduction"? You're writing in the wrong order. Draft methods and results first, introduction last — here's the faster sequence.
How to Respond to Reviewer Comments (3 Ways to Handle Any Comment)
Reviewer 2 came back brutal? Every comment gets one of three responses—incorporate, rebut, or pivot. Here's the calm method that gets papers published.
How to Organize Your PhD Research So You Never Lose a Paper Again (PARA for Researchers)
I once spent forty minutes looking for a paper I had already read, already annotated, and already decided was central
From Zettelkasten to First Draft: Turn Atomic Notes into Academic Paragraphs
You open a blank document. The cursor blinks. You have read forty papers, you have opinions, you have a deadline
How to Take Literature Notes You'll Actually Reuse (The 6-Field System)
You've read the paper. You even highlighted it, maybe scribbled half a page of notes. Then, three months
How to Write a Journal Article: Introduction and Methods
Hello. My name is Thomas Bertelsen, and I want to share with you some strategies that have helped me write
