chi-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM CHI paper — contribution statements, structure for mixed reviewer audiences, participant voice, calibrated claims, accessible and bias-free writing, and length discipline in a venue that reviews words against contribution instead of pages.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill chi-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.
# CHI Writing Style A CHI paper is read by a jury that rarely shares one methodological culture: a quantitative experimenter, a design researcher, and an ethnographer may all review the same submission. The prose must therefore do explicit work that a single-culture venue lets authors skip — naming the contribution type, justifying the method choice to outsiders, and calibrating claims to human evidence. And because CHI reviews length against contribution ("papers should be commensurate with their contribution"; 5,000–8,000 words encouraged, per the CHI 2027 Papers page, read 2026-07-08), every paragraph is auditable: does this paragraph earn its words? ## The contribution statement is load-bearing CHI convention puts an explicit contribution list at the end of the introduction. Write it first, keep it honest, and let it govern the paper: ```text This paper contributes: (1) <empirical finding>: the first interview study (n=24) of <population> doing <activity>, showing <the finding in one clause>; (2) <artifact>: <system>, an open-source <what>, which embodies <the design claim>; (3) <design implications>: five implications for <who>, grounded in (1) and tested against (2). ``` Each
- The contribution statement is load-bearing
- Section-by-section: what each reviewer culture checks
- Participant voice without ventriloquism
- Calibration is the house register
- Write for the ear and the screen reader
- Length discipline in a no-page-limit venue
- Output format
What does the chi-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM CHI paper — contribution statements, structure for mixed reviewer audiences, participant voice, calibrated claims, accessible and bias-free writing, and length discipline in a venue that reviews words against contribution instead of pages.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill chi-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.