Thesis procrastination, but make it systematic

What it does

This repo is a curated knowledge base of 89+ Chinese-language prompts, an Excel scoring rubric, and flowcharts aimed at graduate students. It covers the full research pipeline: generating thesis topics, finding papers, structuring literature reviews, and polishing drafts, including explicit prompts to reduce AI-detection scores. The author pitches it as a systematic replacement for weeks of unstructured academic wheel-spinning.

The interesting bit

The unspoken premise is that grad-school anxiety is really just a poorly optimized workflow. The most telling addition in v2.1 is a set of “text optimization” prompts designed to lower an essay’s AI-detection score—an awkward but honest admission that the target audience is already using LLMs to write and now needs help covering the tracks.

Key highlights

• 89+ prompts spanning topic selection, paper discovery, literature review, and journal-grade writing.
• An Excel-based five-dimension evaluation matrix for scoring and ranking generated research topics.
• Nine new prompts in v2.1 for paraphrasing, expanding, condensing, and masking AI-generated text.
• All content is in Chinese and targets master’s and PhD students in Chinese-speaking institutions.
• MIT licensed, though the repo is essentially a bundle of Markdown files and spreadsheets rather than executable code.

Caveats

• The cited time savings (50–70% faster) and AI-rate reductions (30–50%) are author claims without external validation.
• Because the prompts ask LLMs to recommend real papers, users must manually verify every citation in Google Scholar to avoid hallucinated references.
• The repository contains no software; it is a bundle of templates that requires access to third-party LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude.

Verdict

Worth bookmarking if you are a Chinese-speaking grad student who needs a structured starting point and doesn’t mind filling in the gaps. Purely academic researchers or developers looking for APIs and automation will find nothing to compile here.