phd-literature-review

What problem does it solve?

It helps you engineer a doctoral-level (around 20,000 Chinese characters) literature review chapter by planning the chapter structure, performing literature retrieval and verification, writing each theme module step-by-step, and producing a Word document with formatting suitable for a PhD thesis.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured 20k-word workflow: Builds a multi-stage plan from core assets to a full chapter outline and then writes the chapter in theme modules.
• Citation verification guardrails: Requires incremental calls to a literature-verifier step to ensure every cited work is real and removes unverifiable references.
• PhD-appropriate academic style: Enforces citation format rules (e.g., (Author, Year)), paragraph-length rhythm, critical evaluation, and gap identification logic.
• Word document generation: Compiles the final chapter into a .docx using a dedicated docx generator script with dissertation-style typography.

Quick Start

Tell the skill to write your PhD dissertation literature review by providing your professional field, research direction, thesis title, main and sub research questions, 3–6 core concepts/keywords, a preferred classification standard, your target writing language, and your citation style.