In nursing, midwifery, health sciences and psychology, many final year projects and master's dissertations are structured reviews of the literature. Esmond reads your review and shows where the method is described but the synthesis is thin.
See how Esmond worksA student review often has all the visible parts: a PICO question, a search string, a flow diagram, a quality appraisal table. Many students report the process using PRISMA, which is a common reporting framework for systematic reviews. What examiners then read for is what comes after: do you bring the studies together into findings, and do you weigh them by quality, or does every study count the same?
Esmond does not tick off a checklist. It reads the reasoning that connects your question, your search, your appraisal and your conclusions.
Not every review is a full systematic review, and a student project rarely has the team and time for one. A scoping review maps what exists; a narrative or structured review is more selective. Esmond reads your review on its own terms, and flags where the label you use promises more than the method delivers, for instance a 'systematic' review searched in one database by one reviewer without saying so.
You upload your draft as a PDF. Short documents come back within minutes; a full dissertation takes longer. You get two things back: your own document with comments in the margin, and a separate feedback report that sets out what to tackle first. Every upload starts with a free preview, and the price follows the length of your document and is shown before you pay. No subscription, no account.
Esmond evaluates your work and writes nothing for you. Each comment points to a passage, explains what a supervisor or examiner might question, and gives a direction for revising it. You decide what to change, and every sentence stays yours.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. This page explains what the review does, so you know what to expect when it opens.
No. Esmond reads how you report and justify your search. It does not run database searches or check that you found every study.
It reads how you use the appraisal in your synthesis and conclusions. It does not re-score the studies.
Yes. In a dissertation the literature review builds the frame for your own research. In a systematic review the review is the research. Choose 'literature review' in the intake for both; the feedback follows what your document is.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. Until then you cannot upload or order anything here; the guides on this site are free to read.
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