Research methods guides
Step-by-step, no-fluff guides to the methods work every study runs into — written by the team building Kahubi, linked to free tools you can use right away.
How to write a systematic review, step by step
From a fuzzy topic to a PRISMA-compliant manuscript: the full workflow — question, search strategy, screening, extraction and write-up — with the common failure points marked.
Read the guideGuideChoosing the right statistical test
Four questions determine the test: what kind of outcome, how many groups, are measurements paired, and can you trust the normality assumption. Answer those and the choice is nearly mechanical.
Read the guideGuideHow to analyze interview data
Transcribe, code, theme, report — the qualitative analysis pipeline explained, with the discipline that separates real thematic analysis from vibes with quotes.
Read the guideGuideSample size: how many participants do you actually need?
Too few participants and real effects vanish into noise; too many and you burn months of recruitment for nothing. The answer is a calculation, not a convention — here is how it works.
Read the guideGuideCitation styles explained: APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver
Same paper, six different reference formats. What actually differs between the major styles, which one your field expects, and how to stop formatting references by hand.
Read the guideGuideHow to write an annotated bibliography
A citation plus a paragraph that proves you read the source — what belongs in the annotation, how long it should be, and a structure you can reuse for every entry.
Read the guideGuideHow to write a literature review
A literature review is an argument about a field, not a stack of summaries. How to find the right sources, organize them into themes, and write synthesis that examiners and reviewers actually reward.
Read the guideGuideHow to write a research proposal
A proposal is a persuasion document with a technical core: convince a committee the question matters, the method can answer it, and you can do it in the time you claim. Here is the structure that works.
Read the guideGuideHow to write a methodology section
The methods section has one reader-facing job — let a skeptic judge whether your results can be trusted — and one field-facing job: let someone repeat the study. Write for both and reviewers have little left to attack.
Read the guideGuideHow to respond to reviewer comments
Major revisions are an invitation, not a rejection. The response letter is its own genre — point-by-point, gracious, and precise — and doing it well is one of the most learnable skills in academic publishing.
Read the guideGuideHow to use AI for research — responsibly
AI is now part of the research workflow whether institutions like it or not. The productive question is no longer whether to use it, but which tasks to hand over, which to keep, and how to stay on the right side of your journal, your university, and your own methods section.
Read the guideGuideHow to write an abstract
The abstract is the most-read 250 words of your paper — often the only ones. It is also a genre with rules: five moves, in order, no suspense. Here is how to write one that gets the paper read, cited, and accepted.
Read the guideGuideHow to write a discussion section
The discussion is where papers are won and lost in review: results only become a contribution when you say what they mean, square them with the field, and admit what they cannot show. A structure that keeps you honest and persuasive.
Read the guidePut the methods to work
Every guide maps to a Kahubi flow that runs the workflow end to end. Free plan included.