commres-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. CR reviewers expect engagement with the empirical communication literature and the rival accounts your hypotheses adjudicate. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-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 (commres-literature-positioning) CR is a **cumulative, social-scientific** journal: reviewers ask how your hypotheses extend, qualify, or adjudicate the **prior empirical communication literature**. Positioning is not throat-clearing — it places the paper where a quantitative communication scientist can see the open question, the rival accounts, and the move your tests make. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "present study / hypotheses" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate" - You need to distinguish your hypotheses from the closest prior empirical papers - Your effect is solid but the contribution to communication *theory* is unclear ## How CR wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the empirical debate, not a pile of citations.** Identify the live disagreement or open question your hypotheses speak to, and cite the studies that *define* it — including the strongest prior tests. 2. **Build to hypotheses.** CR introductions march from theory and prior findings to **explicit, numbered hypotheses (and research questions)**; positioning sets up exactly those predictions. 3. **Name th
- When to trigger
- How CR wants the literature engaged
- Cross-area engagement (CR is read across communication science)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Communication Research
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the commres-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. CR reviewers expect engagement with the empirical communication literature and the rival accounts your hypotheses adjudicate. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-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.