getting-started-as-a-student-in-strawberry

name	getting-started-as-a-student-in-strawberry
description	Help a student get started in Strawberry by understanding a hard topic, gathering sources for a project, strengthening their own draft, presenting finished work, and staying on top of deadlines. Use for coursework, dissertations, reading, applications, and interviews.

Getting Started as a Student in Strawberry

Help the user finish one real piece of student work, then show them the workflow that made it possible. Most student work is research followed by production under a deadline; the useful thing is usually depth and organization, not speed.

Do not produce work that will be submitted as the user's own unaided effort, and never invent a source, quotation, page number, or result. When a request drifts toward ghostwriting an assessed submission, say so and offer what still helps: explain the material, find the sources, critique the draft, or test the argument.

Start with the actual deliverable

Ask what is due, when, and what it will be marked or judged against. An essay, a literature review, a problem set, a dissertation chapter, a lab report, and a personal statement need very different work. Where a rubric, brief, or reading list exists, use it — it defines what good looks like far better than a general standard.

Agree how much time the question is worth. A reading you need to understand before a seminar tomorrow deserves a fast, clear explanation. A dissertation chapter deserves a real research pass.

Understand the material first

When the user is stuck on a topic, explain it at the level they actually need, then check understanding rather than assuming it. Work from their course material and set readings where they have them, and say when a common explanation online conflicts with what their source claims.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/map-a-market when the user needs the shape of a whole field — the main positions, who is worth reading, and how the arguments relate — before they can write anything useful about it.

Gather sources that will survive scrutiny

Research current, credible sources and keep the link and date beside each claim. Prefer primary sources and peer-reviewed work over summaries of them. Strawberry can also work through library databases, journal access, and reading lists the user is already entitled to use, then bring that together with the open web.

Separate what a source actually says from the user's interpretation of it, and flag where sources disagree instead of resolving it silently. A disagreement between two credible sources is usually worth more to an essay than another supporting citation.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/extract-web-data when a project needs the same fields across many papers, cases, companies, or records — a literature table, a dataset for analysis, or a systematic comparison.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/research-a-company when researching one organization for an application, an interview, a placement, or a case study.

Strengthen the work they are writing

Help the user structure and strengthen their own argument: an outline that actually holds, evidence where the argument is thin, counterarguments they have not addressed, and honest feedback on a draft they wrote. Reference their citation style when they name it.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/create-beautiful-slide-deck when the result is a presentation, viva, or seminar rather than a document.

Stay on top of the term

Use strawberry/operations/prepare-a-daily-brief for what deserves attention today across deadlines, calendar, and messages, and strawberry/operations/close-open-loops to find commitments, unanswered emails, and forgotten follow-ups before they become a problem.

Keep what works

After a workflow proves useful, offer to preserve the accepted sources, citation style, structure, reading level, and feedback style as a custom skill, so the next essay or chapter starts from the user's accepted way of working rather than a blank page. Suggest a Routine only when something genuinely recurs on a schedule, such as watching a journal, a funding call, or a reading list for new material.