The Research Desk — 90 Prompts for Investigation & Synthesis

90 original prompt templates for research, investigation, and structured reasoning, organized into 6 sections of 15: source credibility assessment, competing-hypothesis analysis, cross-source synthesis, literature review structuring, annotated bibliography generation, and structured argument mapping. The package includes prompts.md (all 90 prompts, each with a fill-in template and a one-line 'Produces' note), examples.md (10 of the 90 prompts filled in with realistic content and example output), and a README with a 'which section do I need' lookup table and five suggested multi-prompt workflows (writing a literature review from scratch, fact-checking a claim quickly, deciding between competing explanations, building a class bibliography, preparing to defend a position). The pack is explicit about its own limits: it structures reasoning and comparison, it does not verify facts against primary sources, and its README recommends pasting real source text into prompts rather than relying on an assistant's memory of a source. Intended for researchers, students, and analysts who want a repeatable process rather than starting each task from a blank prompt.