ci-scholarly-positioning
Use to situate a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay within the conversations it enters across the arts and humanities. CI is interdisciplinary, so positioning means naming the critical and theoretical debates the essay joins — across literature, art, film, philosophy, politics, history — and the precise place where it intervenes, not a discipline-internal literature review. Frames the stakes; it does not write the prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ci-scholarly-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.
# Scholarly Positioning (ci-scholarly-positioning) A CI essay enters a **conversation**, not a "literature." Positioning means naming the debate(s) the essay joins — which may run across several fields — and locating the exact point where your intervention bites. This is not a social-science literature review and not a dutiful survey; it is the argumentative map that shows why the field needs this essay now. ## When to trigger - After topic selection, to define whose conversation you are entering - The argument is strong but readers ask "what's at stake / who are you arguing with?" - The essay touches several fields and you must decide which debates to foreground - A Critical Response that must engage a specific prior CI piece precisely ## How CI positioning differs 1. **Conversations, not literatures.** Identify the **debate** — a concept under dispute, a reading that has hardened into orthodoxy, a method whose limits are showing — and name its principals. 2. **Interdisciplinary, but disciplined.** Reach across fields where the stakes genuinely cross, but do not sprinkle citations from five fields to look broad. Engage what your argument moves. 3. **Theory as interlocutor.** The r
- When to trigger
- How CI positioning differs
- Map the intervention
- Engage generously, then turn
- Anti-patterns
- Operating pass for Critical Inquiry
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ci-scholarly-positioning skill do?
Use to situate a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay within the conversations it enters across the arts and humanities. CI is interdisciplinary, so positioning means naming the critical and theoretical debates the essay joins — across literature, art, film, philosophy, politics, history — and the precise place where it intervenes, not a discipline-internal literature review. Frames the stakes; it does not write the prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ci-scholarly-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.