Templates & Checklists
Practical Academic Checklists and Review Resources
Use this collection to find practical review tools for academic documents. Each resource stays in the subject category where it belongs, while this page brings the most useful checklists together in one place.
Checklists you can use now
These two are print-friendly web pages. They are not downloadable files, and they stay at their original addresses.
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Dissertation
Dissertation Editing Checklist Before Submission
A broader final pass for structure, clarity, proofreading, formatting and submission preparation.
View the checklist
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Citations & Formatting
Citation Checking Checklist
A final pass for source reality, citation and reference matching, source details, quotations and consistency.
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Before submission
The dissertation checklist is a print-friendly web page for a draft you have written. It covers structure, clarity, proofreading, formatting and submission preparation. It lives under Dissertation resources, and this page does not repeat its questions. The journal checklist lives under Research and is available at that address. Assignment instructions, a university handbook, department rules, journal instructions and a supervisor’s guidance override either list.
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Dissertation
Dissertation Editing Checklist Before Submission
A print-friendly web checklist for a broader final pass. It is not a downloadable file, and it is not an official submission checklist.
View the checklist
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Research
Journal Submission Checklist
A print-friendly web checklist for a manuscript before you send it to a journal. It stays under Research. It is not a downloadable file, and it is not the journal’s own list.
View the checklist
Citations and sources
The citation checklist is a print-friendly web page. It focuses on whether sources are real, whether in-text citations match the reference list, whether source details agree, how quotations are handled, and whether one required style is used consistently. It lives under Citations and Formatting. This page does not repeat its questions. Checking a box does not prove that a source is strong.
Writing and revision
This is a guide with review questions about editing and proofreading. It is not a standalone editing-checklist file, and there is nothing to download.
Research planning
These are guides. Each includes checks you can use while reading your own plan. Neither is a standalone checklist, and neither is a downloadable template for a research question or a gap.
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Research
How to Identify a Research Gap
A guide to how a gap follows from what the sources show. It is not a research-gap checklist file.
Read the guide
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Research
Research Questions vs Objectives
A guide that includes alignment checks. It is not a downloadable research-question template.
Read the guide
Responsible use
This is a guide to responsible AI use, with a self-check on the same page. It is not an AI compliance checklist, and it does not certify authorship or a detector result.
What these pages do not do
Ticking every box does not prove that the argument is right, that a source is strong, that a method is valid, or that the work will be accepted. A checklist supports a review. It does not certify quality. These pages also do not fabricate content, certify authorship, invent sources, or replace the reasoning an assignment requires.
Read the academic integrity policy for ClarityScholar’s own boundaries. This hub only helps you find the review pages.
Looking across the whole library
This page gathers checklists and guides. It does not offer a downloadable file, and it does not ask you to upload a document. The Free Assessment page shows whether an online request can be submitted yet.