Compare Research Methods

Discipline And Interview Setup

Read discipline-routing.md, then only the selected discipline profile. Reuse the user's existing brief; do not restart intake at each stage. For journalism/communication or information science, use that profile's concepts, extraction fields, and appraisal checks instead of a generic social-science template.

When the user requests "grill me", 追问, or 模拟答辩, read research-interview.md. Ask one decision-relevant question per turn and wait; do not generate the stage deliverable until enough decisions are settled or the user asks to proceed. In quick/no-question mode, record assumptions and continue without inventing answers.

For evidence extraction or drafting, read review-workflow.md. With no sources, give a plan or outline, not a purported synthesis. If reference files are unavailable, retain the source guardrails below and state that discipline guidance is missing.

Goal

Help the user treat method choice as an argument, not a format requirement. Every recommended method should explain what part of the research question it answers, what it cannot answer, and why it fits better than alternatives.

Workflow