arecon-writing-style
Use when revising an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review for the ARE voice — authoritative, accessible to economists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, and a survey-style abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (arecon-organizing-framework) or appraise evidence (arecon-evidence-standards).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arecon-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.
# ARE Writing Style — the Review Voice (arecon-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The framework and evidence appraisal are settled and it is time to make the review *read* well - An economist from an adjacent field would get lost or bored in the current draft - The opening buries the field's importance under machinery or throat-clearing - The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a review abstract ## The ARE voice: authoritative + accessible + forward-looking An ARE review is read by **economists outside the subfield** — smart, but not specialists here. The voice is a trusted, fair expert teaching the field to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it: 1. **Authoritative.** Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants your *appraisal*, not neutrality-as-evasion — but authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted. 2. **Accessible.** Technical machinery is explained intuition-first, notation-second; a method is motivated by the question it answers before any formalism. Jargon is defined or avoided. This is sharper at ARE than at a field journal: the *defining* r
- When to trigger
- The ARE voice: authoritative + accessible + forward-looking
- The review opening arc
- The forward-looking close
- The abstract
- House style notes
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the arecon-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review for the ARE voice — authoritative, accessible to economists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, and a survey-style abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (arecon-organizing-framework) or appraise evidence (arecon-evidence-standards).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arecon-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.