Interactive practice
Diagnose the front-matter flaw
Each scenario is a short excerpt from the opening pages of a realistic proposal. For each one, name which front-matter piece is broken — the problem statement, the purpose statement, the research questions, or the alignment between RQs and the design — then pick the revision that actually fixes it. Coaching feedback explains why the plausible-looking wrong answers fall short.
Scenario 1 of 7 · Quantitative
Pillars 0/0 · Remedies 0/0
A doctoral proposal opens: 'Burnout among nurses is an important topic. No prior study has examined burnout in nurses at this specific hospital, so the present study fills that gap.'
Step 1 — Which pillar is most threatened?
Want to study a single piece in depth? Each module has its own reading, an AI coach, a rating exercise, and a knowledge check — open them from the top navigation.