doctoral-brain

Plugin doctoral-brain from marketplace doctoral-brain in RHuebner1972/doctoral-second-brain. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 30 days ago.

Skills (54)

• abstract-writer

  Generate structured and unstructured abstracts for dissertations, journals, and conferences.

• academic-voice

  Edit or rewrite content for scholarly register, hedging, objectivity, and precision.

• advanced-literature-synthesis

  Conduct meta-synthesis, systematic reviews, evidence mapping, and advanced literature reviews that synthesize across multiple studies and identify patterns at scale.

• apa-citations

  Format citations and references in APA 7th edition for any source type.

• argument-builder

  Evaluate and strengthen the logical structure of a scholarly argument.

• celebrate-progress

  Acknowledge and anchor doctoral milestones with a deliberate, structured celebration that builds doctoral identity.

• chapter-draft

  Generate scholarly first drafts of any dissertation chapter section using the learner's inputs.

• committee-management

  Navigate committee selection, advisor relationships, communication cadence, conflicting feedback, and productive collaboration.

• concept-explainer

  Translate complex academic concepts into clear language, then back into scholarly prose.

• concept-map

  Generate a textual concept map showing relationships between key constructs in the dissertation study.

• data-management-organization

  Organize, document, version-control, and preserve your research data with naming conventions, metadata, and FAIR principles for long-term accessibility and reproducibility.

• deep-focus-protocol

  Run a structured pre-session focus protocol covering environment, intention, constraints, and a commitment device.

• defense-preparation

  Prepare comprehensively for dissertation defense, from slide strategy to handling difficult questions to post-defense considerations.

• dissertation-conclusions

  Write compelling conclusions that synthesize findings, explain implications, address limitations, and articulate significance for research, practice, and policy.

• dissertation-outline

  Scaffold a full dissertation using standard five-chapter conventions with section-level guidance.

• dissertation-timeline

  Build a realistic, week-by-week dissertation timeline with milestones and checkpoints.

• dissertation-to-publication

  Convert your dissertation into publishable journal articles and book chapters, navigate journal selection, and manage the publication revision cycle.

• energy-management

  Map the learner's energy patterns to high-value doctoral tasks to protect peak cognition for deep work.

• goal-setting

  Define and prioritize doctoral goals at the semester, month, and week level.

• idea-capture

  Quickly format and file a raw idea into a retrievable, linkable knowledge artifact.

• instrumentation-measurement

  Design, select, and validate research instruments (surveys, scales, interview protocols) that reliably and validly measure your constructs.

• interdisciplinary-bridging

  Integrate multiple disciplines into your research—positioning across fields, bridging literatures, translating disciplinary concepts, and legitimizing interdisciplinary work.

• introduction-chapter

  Write a compelling Chapter 1 that establishes the problem, context, significance, and research questions—the foundation that makes readers want to understand your study.

• irb-research-ethics

  Navigate IRB approval, informed consent, ethical considerations, vulnerable populations, and research compliance requirements.

• jacobs-problem-statement-evaluator

  Evaluate a doctoral dissertation problem statement against the Jacobs (2011) model (principal proposition, interacting proposition, speculative proposition, explicative statement) using a scored rubric. Use when a student pastes a draft problem statement and asks for a check, critique, rubric score,

• knowledge-gap-journal

  Maintain a running journal of open questions and knowledge gaps to drive purposeful reading and inquiry.

• license-check

  Soft-check whether this Doctoral Second Brain install has an active subscriber license token. Honesty tooling, not DRM.

• literature-review

  Plan, structure, and write a literature review using thematic, chronological, or conceptual frameworks.

• mental-health-wellbeing

  Navigate the emotional and psychological challenges of doctoral study—imposter syndrome, burnout, perfectionism, impostor phenomenon—and build sustainable practices for wellbeing.

• methodology

  Select and justify a research methodology aligned with the problem, research questions, and epistemological stance.

• methods-chapter

  Write a comprehensive Methods chapter that justifies your research design, describes data collection procedures, and demonstrates rigor.

• motivation-reset

  Reorient the learner to their purpose, values, and progress using structured reflection prompts when motivation has collapsed.

• note-to-insight

  Transform rough reading notes into structured, linked insight artifacts ready for the second brain.

• peer-review-response

  Draft point-by-point responses to dissertation committee or peer reviewer feedback.

• lens-1-mirror

  Lens 1 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks to "run the mirror," "restate my problem statement," "what does my draft actually say," or "list the claims in my problem statement." Reflects the draft back without evaluating or i

• lens-2-anatomy

  Lens 2 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks to "run the anatomy," "check the four functions," "does my problem statement do everything it needs to," or "map my draft against the required parts." Maps the text against the four

• lens-3-evidence-audit

  Lens 3 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks to "run the evidence audit," "which claims are cited," "what am I asserting without support," or "audit the evidence in my problem statement." Classifies every factual claim as CITE

• lens-4-symptom-or-root-cause

  Lens 4 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks "is this the real problem or a symptom," "run the root cause lens," "what might be underneath my problem," or "symptom or root cause." Treats the stated problem as a possible sympto

• lens-5-assumption-excavation

  Lens 5 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks to "excavate assumptions," "what am I assuming," "run the assumption lens," or "what has to be true for this to hold." Lists every assumption the statement depends on, split into st

• lens-6-adversarial-committee

  Lens 6 of the Doctoral Problem Statement Lenses. Use when a doctoral student pastes a draft problem statement and asks for "the adversarial committee," "attack my problem statement," "hardest defense questions," "play the hostile committee member," or "run lens 6." Role-plays a skeptical committee m

• problem-statement

  Craft a tight, scholarly problem statement aligned with the identified gap and grounded in evidence.

• procrastination-audit

  Diagnose the root cause of procrastination and prescribe a specific, low-friction next action.

• proposal-writing-defense

  Write a compelling dissertation proposal and prepare to defend it before your committee, anticipating questions and managing the oral exam.

• qualitative-analysis

  Guide qualitative researchers through coding strategies, thematic analysis, memo-writing, reflexivity, and rigorous interpretation.

• quantitative-analysis

  Guide quantitative researchers through statistical test selection, data analysis procedures, results reporting, and interpretation.

• reading-plan

  Build a curated, time-bound reading plan aligned with the current phase of the dissertation.

• research-gap

  Identify white space in a field by analyzing literature clusters, methodological blind spots, population gaps, and temporal gaps.

• research-questions

  Generate and refine central and sub-questions that are answerable, bounded, and aligned with methodology.

• source-log

  Build and maintain an annotated source log with relevance ratings and synthesis notes.

• source-synthesis

  Extract themes, tensions, and convergences across multiple sources to build a synthetic narrative.

• theoretical-framework

  Identify, explain, and apply a theoretical or conceptual framework to anchor the dissertation study.

• weekly-review

  Run a structured weekly review covering what was completed, what slipped, what's next, and what needs adjustment.

• writing-habit

  Design a sustainable daily writing practice with accountability structures and streak-building tactics.

• writing-session-plan

  Structure a focused writing session with goals, warm-up, deep work blocks, and a wrap-up review.

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