# Research paper desk: the draft, the data and the sources in agreement

> For Academic researchers and research students writing up a study for a journal or a thesis.

the figure in the draft is drawn from the results Table on the same desk, so rerunning a model means updating rows and watching the chart redraw — and a submission checklist keeps the last week honest. Distinct from literature-review (the sources matrix).

## What goes on the desk

- Document ‘Paper draft’ (imports .docx) (/help/widget-document)
- Table ‘Results’ (Group, n, Mean, Outcome as number columns) (/help/widget-table)
- Chart from the table (/help/widget-chart)
- File or link for the journal’s author guidelines PDF (/help/widget-file-or-link)
- Browser on the journal’s submission page (/help/widget-browser)
- Tasks ‘Before submission’ (rerun without outliers, tighten the limitations, check the word limit) (/help/widget-tasks)
- Markdown ‘Sources’ (/help/widget-markdown).

## Set it up

import results from CSV or Excel (/help/widget-table-import); add a Chart; give the desk a due date and a Duration (/help/desk-create).

## Use it day to day

one desk per paper; Resume before you stop (/help/desk-resume).

## Where Plexii helps

Plexii answers from your own documents with sources you can click (/help/ai-assistant); the Document’s Rewrite selection tightens a paragraph and changes nothing until you replace it (/help/widget-document).