acmmm-writing-style
Use when revising an ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) paper for house style — putting the cross-modal contribution on the first page, framing media (figures, video, audio) as evidence rather than decoration, making the fusion the visible claim, and compressing the argument into a 6-8 page ACM sigconf body with references-only overflow.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ACM MM Writing Style Use this to revise an ACM Multimedia draft for the venue's expectations. The reader is a busy reviewer scanning across sixteen thematic areas; the paper must announce *what is multimedia about it* before the model diagram. ## The ACM MM first-page arc Lead the abstract and first paragraph with: **problem → why one modality is insufficient → the cross-modal method or system → media-grounded evidence → why it matters for multimedia**. The multimedia contribution belongs on page one; a paper that opens with a single-modality benchmark reads as a CVPR or ACL paper that wandered in. - State the **fusion or systems mechanism** as the contribution, not a backbone swap. - Make every media element *do work*: a teaser figure that shows the cross-modal signal, a video that is evidence for a claim, an audio clip that a reader can check. - Scope claims to what the evidence supports; "improves engagement" needs a measured engagement result behind it. ## Media-as-evidence table | Media element | Weak (decoration) | Strong (evidence) | |---|---|---| | Teaser figure | A pretty system diagram | The moment where modalities disagree and the method wins | | Qualitative grid | Che
- The ACM MM first-page arc
- Media-as-evidence table
- Compression into the sigconf body
- Revision passes
- Title and abstract for cross-area reviewers
- A body-budget worked pass
- Common ACM MM style failures
- Output format
What does the acmmm-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising an ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) paper for house style — putting the cross-modal contribution on the first page, framing media (figures, video, audio) as evidence rather than decoration, making the fusion the visible claim, and compressing the argument into a 6-8 page ACM sigconf body with references-only overflow.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.