Research templates
54 expert prompts for real research tasks — coding interviews, drafting paper sections, designing studies, grading. Fill in your material, and Kahubi turns the result into an editable draft in your project.
General
Everyday research assistance — ask about texts, summarize meetings, translate, reply to email.
Ask this text
Ask questions about a text. Copy in the text, and ask questions about it.
Ask anything
A blank canvas — ask the AI anything and get a research-grade answer.
Research meeting
Summarizes a research meeting — decisions, action items and open questions.
Respond to Email
Draft a professional reply to an email you received.
Translate this
Translate a text into another language while preserving meaning and academic tone.
Education
Teaching work: lesson plans, exams, problem solutions, and fair grading.
Solve problem
Walk through a problem step by step with a clear, teachable solution.
Grade this student
Grade a student submission against your criteria with structured, constructive feedback.
Plan my lesson
Create a complete lesson plan with objectives, activities, timings and assessment.
Design an exam
Design an exam with aligned questions, model answers and a grading scheme.
Data
Qualitative and quantitative analysis — coding interviews, surveys, sentiment, datasets.
Analyze data with framework
Analyze your data through a specific analytical framework you provide.
Interview - Label speakers
Label the speakers in an unlabeled or messy interview transcript.
Suggest survey questions
Generate well-constructed survey questions for your research topic.
Code interview (grounded theory)
Open, axial and selective coding of an interview using grounded theory.
Code interview - you define how
Code an interview transcript using a coding approach you define yourself.
Narrative analysis
Perform a narrative analysis of a text or interview.
Suggest interview questions
Create a complete interview guide with main questions and follow-up probes.
Extract data from a paper
Extract structured data from a paper, e.g. for a review or meta-analysis.
Generate CSV
Turn a description or unstructured text into a clean CSV dataset.
Analyze interviews (multiple)
Analyze several interviews together to find cross-cutting themes.
Analyze interview
In-depth thematic analysis of a single interview transcript.
Sentiment analysis
Analyze the sentiment of texts — polarity, intensity and what drives it.
Analyze data
Explore a dataset — patterns, statistics and interpretation.
Publish
Getting work out the door: journal fit, titles, proposals, study plans, outreach.
Revise text for journal submission
Revise a text to meet the standards of journal submission.
Find ideas for new studies
Generate concrete ideas for new studies based on your research area.
Suggest a title
Suggest effective titles for your paper.
Suggest journal
Recommend suitable journals for submitting your manuscript.
Suggest research conference
Find conferences that fit your research.
Further research
Write a 'directions for further research' section grounded in your study.
Write twitter thread
Turn your research into an engaging Twitter/X thread.
Plan my study
Plan a research study end-to-end — design, sampling, analysis and timeline.
Research proposal
Draft a full research proposal, e.g. for funding or a PhD application.
Read
Understand and interrogate texts — critique, proofread, summarize, steelman the other side.
Critique this
A rigorous scholarly critique of a text or paper.
Proofread this
Proofread for grammar, spelling, punctuation and clarity.
Summarize text
Summarize a text at exactly the depth you need.
What's the opposite view?
Steelman the strongest case against a text or argument.
Explain this
Explain a difficult text or concept in plain language.
Write
Draft every section of a paper, from abstract to conclusion, plus reviews and rewrites.
Write anything
Describe what you want written and get a polished draft.
Rewrite this
Rewrite a text — improve flow, change tone, or fit a new purpose.
Notes -> Draft
Turn rough notes into a coherent, structured draft.
Historic overview
Write a historical overview of a topic, field or debate.
Write Literature review
Write a literature review of your research area from the sources you provide.
Write Introduction
Write the Introduction section of your paper.
Write Abstract
Write a tight, complete abstract for your paper.
Write Method
Write the Method section of your paper.
Write Discussion
Write the Discussion section of your paper.
Write Results
Write the Results section of your paper.
Write Conclusion
Write the Conclusion section of your paper.
Method
Design the study: research questions, hypotheses, search strategies, frameworks.
Paper outline
Create a detailed, section-by-section outline for a paper.
Keywords for literature search
Generate keywords and boolean search strings for a literature search.
Identify research gaps
Identify and prioritize research gaps in a body of literature.
Suggest research methods
Compare suitable research methods for your question and recommend one.
Research questions
Formulate strong, answerable research questions from your topic.
Suggest hypothesis
Derive precise, testable hypotheses for your study.
Suggest theoretical framework
Suggest theoretical frameworks to ground your study.
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