aejmac-writing-style
Use when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest macro arc. Late-stage polish on framing and clarity; it does not fix identification, the model, or exhibits.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-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.
# Writing Style (aejmac-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction leads with the model block or the estimator, not the macro question - The abstract is over 100 words or buries the headline quantity - A general macroeconomist cannot tell from page 1 what is measured and why it matters - The prose is technically correct but the idea does not land ## The AEJ: Macro writing bar AEJ: Macro is **broad-interest**, so the writing must make the macro question and the headline quantity legible to a *general* macroeconomist early — before the DSGE notation or the SVAR machinery. Follow **AEA house style** (active voice, plain prose, quantities with units, standard errors / bands reported). The hard constraint to design around: the **abstract is ≤100 words** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) — far tighter than most economics journals — so every word in it must earn its place. ## The AEJ: Macro introduction arc 1. **The macro question + headline quantity, in the first breath.** "How much does a monetary tightening lower output?" — then the number with units and uncertainty, e.g., "we find a 100 bp shock lowers output by 0.6% (90% band [0.2, 1.0]) at its peak." 2. **Why it is hard.** The identific
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Macro writing bar
- The AEJ: Macro introduction arc
- The ≤100-word abstract
- Prose discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette: before → after first sentence (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the aejmac-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest macro arc. Late-stage polish on framing and clarity; it does not fix identification, the model, or exhibits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-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.