Dissertation Topic Narrowing skill for Claude

Dissertation Topic Narrowing as a Claude skill. Claude asks for Broadly, I'm interested in, Discipline, Length and deadline and 2 more, then does the rest.…

Install it once and Claude runs it for you. When your request matches, Claude loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When Claude uses it

Use when the user wants help with Dissertation Topic Narrowing. Related topics: Students, Research, Academic.

What Claude will ask you for

• Broadly, I'm interested in (longer free text)
• Discipline (free text, e.g. "human geography")
• Length and deadline (free text, e.g. "10")
• Methods available to me (choose any: Interviews, Survey, Archival sources, Existing datasets, Lab work, Textual analysis, Fieldwork)
• Constraints (longer free text)

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.