AI Prompts for Research Design
Make your methodology examination‑ready. CLARITY COMPASS — Book 3 gives MA, MPhil and PhD scholars a complete, step‑by‑step AI workflow to choose the right research design, justify every decision, and defend your methodology in the viva. This compact toolkit includes 7 ready-to-use AI prompts, a 6‑step decision workflow, a paradigm guide, a design selector, a sampling system, and viva defence scripts — everything you need to write an internally consistent methodology chapter and confidently justify it to examiners.What you get 7 AI prompts covering paradigm, design, sampling, data collection, validity, ethics and viva defence. 6‑Step Decision Workflow to align worldview → theory → design → methods → analysis → defence. Paradigm guide and quick reference table (positivism, interpretivism, critical theory, pragmatism, etc.). Design selector that maps research questions to qualitative, quantitative or mixed designs and specific variants (phenomenology, case study, survey, grounded theory). Sampling system with inclusion/exclusion templates and recommended sample sizes. Examiner-proof viva defence scripts and checklists you can memorise. Ready-to-use methodology chapter paragraphs, ethics and validity sections, and piloting templates. Who this is for Master’s, MPhil, and PhD scholars in social sciences. Supervisors, research tutors, and doctoral trainers. Researchers who want a fast, defensible method for building an examiner‑ready methodology. Why it worksThis toolkit forces alignment: every methodological choice is traced back to your research questions and paradigm, so you can defend decisions with clear philosophical and practical justification. It’s compact, actionable, and designed for AI-assisted workflow — copy prompts into your preferred LLM and generate examiner‑ready text in minutes.Format & license PDF toolkit, printable A4 slides and templates. Personal academic use — suitable for thesis, dissertations, and coursework. How to use (quick start) Run Prompt 1A to identify your paradigm and write a 100‑word positioning statement. Use the 6‑step workflow to pick design + prompt the Design Selector. Generate sampling, ethics, validity and viva scripts using the supplied prompts. Paste answers into your methodology chapter and refine.
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