cscw-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising CSCW prose — group-level framing, concepts a field can reuse, participant voice handled with care, theory that earns its keep, and length discipline under the 5,000-12,000-word scrutiny band where contribution is weighed against every page.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-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.
# CSCW Writing Style A CSCW paper is judged by readers from several intellectual traditions at once — ethnographers, statisticians, system builders, social theorists — inside a journal process where the same reviewers may read the paper twice. The prose must therefore do two unusual things: make each tradition's part legible to the others, and hold up under a *second*, more skeptical read during Revise and Resubmit. ## Length: no cap, but a scale CSCW imposes no formal page limit. The 2026-cycle CFP instead put weight on a band: papers under roughly **5,000 words** or over roughly **12,000 words** attract extra scrutiny, and a paper whose length is incommensurate with its contribution can be desk rejected. Treat length as a claim you are making: every additional section asserts that the contribution needs it. Practical calibration: - Write the paper the contribution needs, then defend the word count in one sentence. If you cannot, cut until you can. - Long ≠ thorough. A 14,000-word manuscript signals unedited fieldnotes more often than it signals depth; move protocol detail to appendices. - Short ≠ crisp. Under ~5,000 words, reviewers will ask whether the study is a workshop paper
- Length: no cap, but a scale
- The group-level sentence
- Concepts, theory, and participant voice
- Calibration under re-review
- First-page audit
What does the cscw-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising CSCW prose — group-level framing, concepts a field can reuse, participant voice handled with care, theory that earns its keep, and length discipline under the 5,000-12,000-word scrutiny band where contribution is weighed against every page.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cscw-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.