Academic writing guides, one paper type at a time

The short version

Every academic paper is an argument with a set shape. A research proposal argues that a question deserves a project. A literature review argues where a debate stands and where the gap is. A case study analysis argues what should happen in one real situation. A book review argues what a book achieves and where it falls short. An essay argues one claim from start to finish, and a dissertation holds one argument across several chapters. Find the paper you have been set, read what it has to prove, then follow its sections in order. Each guide starts with a short answer, walks through the sections with a worked example, gives you a template to adapt, and ends with the reasons markers most often send that kind of paper back. Each one also says where AI tools usually help and where they get in the way, and links to the longer page on that question. Your assignment brief and your department's handbook always come first: where they disagree with anything here, follow them.