cogpsych-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument. Tightens structure, the experiment-to-model narrative, and APA-style reporting; it does not invent content. Verify the journal's current length and format guidance on the official page.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-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 (cogpsych-writing-style) Cognitive Psychology publishes **longer, integrative articles**, so the challenge is the opposite of a short-report journal: the danger is not the word limit but **losing the argument across many experiments and a model**. Writing well here means making a multi-experiment program plus a formal model read as **one cumulative theoretical argument**, in clear scientific prose with rigorous (APA-style) statistical reporting. ## When to trigger - Drafting the Introduction/General Discussion or doing a structural pass - A series of experiments reads as a list rather than a single argument - Integrating the model exposition with the empirical sections - Aligning statistical reporting and references to the journal's style before submission ## Writing the long-form, model-driven paper 1. **Front-load the theoretical claim.** State the question, the rival accounts, and the contribution in the Introduction (see `cogpsych-literature-positioning`). The reader should know what is at stake before Experiment 1. 2. **Make each experiment a step in the argument.** Open each experiment with the specific question it answers and what it adds (rules out a confoun
- When to trigger
- Writing the long-form, model-driven paper
- Structure that keeps a multi-experiment paper coherent
- Worked micro-example — making experiments cohere (illustrative)
- Cohesion playbook
- Prose-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the cogpsych-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument. Tightens structure, the experiment-to-model narrative, and APA-style reporting; it does not invent content. Verify the journal's current length and format guidance on the official page.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-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.