Narrative review track
Write a publishable narrative review. Every word yours.
MannyScript walks pre-med and early-stage undergraduate researchers from a topic to a submission-ready manuscript in ten gated steps. A tutor watches your work and speaks only when something is inconsistent. It never writes a sentence for you.
It refuses to do the work
The tutor asks questions, points at your data, and names flaws. It does not draft, summarize, screen, or theme for you.
One thing on screen at a time
One paper, one decision, one section. The tutor sees only what you see, and never reads ahead.
Rigor for free
Your search strategy table and PRISMA-style flow diagram are generated from the record of what you did.
Ten steps, each with a gate
- 1
Know what you're writing · Review genre
State in one sentence why a narrative review fits your topic.
- 2
Turn your topic into a question · Guiding question
One sentence, with an identifiable population and outcome.
- 3
Draw the boundaries · Scope, landscape scan, model paper
Scope statement, a gap statement, and a model paper selected.
- 4
Build your search · Boolean search strategy
A search returning 25–400 hits, every revision justified.
- 5
Decide which papers count · Screening
Every retrieved paper has a decision, at both levels.
- 6
Pull out what each paper found · Data extraction
Every included paper has a filled row: a design, a key finding, a weakness.
- 7
Weigh the evidence · Critical appraisal
Every included paper rated, consistently.
- 8
Find the argument · Themes and thesis
3–5 themes, no orphaned sources, a thesis that makes a claim.
- 9
Write the paper · Outline and draft
Every section drafted; abstract last.
- 10
Revise, cite, disclose, ship · Final checks and export
Rigor checklist complete, declarations written.