Academic Project Guides
How to plan, structure and finish a dissertation, thesis or major academic project.
Resources
These started as the explanations we found ourselves repeating. Written down properly, they are free and complete — no gated download, no email wall.
By topic
How to plan, structure and finish a dissertation, thesis or major academic project.
Research design, systematic reviews, sampling and getting work through peer review.
Which test to use, what the assumptions mean, and how to report the result properly.
Getting the analysis software to do what you need, and understanding the output it gives back.
Practical notes on building things — websites, apps, pipelines and the decisions behind them.
Newest
Scroll-scrubbed video, sticky pinning, depth without WebGL, and the performance and accessibility rules that decide whether the result is impressive…
Choosing the right test, checking assumptions honestly, and turning SPSS output into APA tables you can defend — without pretending statistics is…
Protocol, search strings, screening, extraction, appraisal and a flow diagram whose numbers reconcile — written for people doing their first review.
The sequence investors expect, what each slide has to prove, and the slides that most often lose the room.
They are not competitors and you are not choosing between them. Here is what each one is, why you install both, and when R is worth the learning…
A straight comparison across performance, ecosystem, hiring and long-term maintenance — and the situations where each one is clearly the right answer.
Structures and checklists you can use straight away.
Quick calculators and decision paths for planning research.
Real problems, how they were diagnosed, and what fixed them.
Straight answers, including the ones you might not want.
Next step
If you have read the guide and you are still stuck, that is exactly the point at which it is worth asking someone.