Red Ladder Forge

Career Accelerator · Online · 3 weeks

Research Desk — Source Quality for Operators

Sharpen how you collect, store, and cite references so your testing arguments survive skeptical review.

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Research Desk is a quiet sprint for people who love rabbit holes but lose the thread. You will build lightweight literature reviews, practice citing vendor documentation without overclaiming, and rehearse conversations with fictional procurement reviewers who ask uncomfortable questions about reproducibility.

What is inside

  • Reference hygiene checklist
  • Vendor documentation triage drills
  • Citation practice for internal wikis
  • Role-play with skeptical procurement persona
  • Peer swaps on overstated claims
  • Mentor markup on two long-form drafts
  • Closing memo on unknowns explicitly acknowledged

Outcomes

  • Produce a short bibliography for a single finding family
  • Rewrite a paragraph that previously overreached on vendor claims
  • List unknowns explicitly in a closing memo section

Lead mentor

Noah Feld

Technical mentor with editorial review experience.

Tuition indicator: ₩1,950,000 · See Cancellation Policy before paying tuition.

Questions

Participant notes

Research Desk slowed me down in the right places. The procurement persona role-play exposed two lazy sentences I kept recycling.
Nari · Graduate researcher · 5/5 · survey
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