aerj-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript in the literature. AERJ readers span the whole field, so the paper must engage the literatures a general education-research audience expects and speak past its own subfield. Builds the positioning argument; it does not write the literature review for you.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (aerj-literature-positioning) An AERJ paper must locate itself in the **field-wide** conversation, not just a niche citation cluster. The literature review establishes the gap, the stakes, and why this study advances understanding for a general education-research reader. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the literature/background section - A reviewer said the paper "doesn't engage the relevant literature" or "talks only to insiders" - Establishing the gap the study fills and why it matters broadly - Reconciling literatures across subfields or methods ## How to position 1. **Map the conversation, not a pile of citations.** Organize by debate or construct, not by author. Show the reader the shape of what is known and where it disagrees. 2. **Engage what AERJ readers expect.** Cite the field-defining and lens-relevant work (policy / organizational / equity literatures; learning / teaching / development literatures), plus the methodological literature your design rests on. 3. **Name the gap precisely.** Not "little is known" — specify the unanswered question, the unresolved tension, or the untested mechanism your study addresses. 4. **Cross subfields de
- When to trigger
- How to position
- The "so what for the field" test
- Anti-patterns
- What AERJ reviewers expect a review to engage
- Worked positioning vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback and the venue-specific fix
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the aerj-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript in the literature. AERJ readers span the whole field, so the paper must engage the literatures a general education-research audience expects and speak past its own subfield. Builds the positioning argument; it does not write the literature review for you.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aerj-literature-positioning --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.