ecta-writing-style
Use as a late-stage polish for an Econometrica manuscript to enforce the terse, formal, theorem-numbered house style and clean mathematical exposition. Polishes prose and notation; it does not fix the proof (use ecta-theory-model) or the simulations (use ecta-robustness).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecta-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 (ecta-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction spends pages on motivation before stating any result - Assumptions and definitions are buried in prose instead of numbered and set off - Notation is inconsistent, overloaded, or introduced after first use - The draft reads like an applied paper (long narrative) rather than a formal one Trigger this **late**, after the theorems and simulations are stable. Do not polish prose over an unstable proof. ## The Econometrica register Econometrica prose is **terse, precise, and formal**. The reader is a specialist. Value is signaled by the result and its proof, not by rhetorical motivation. The journal's house style is theorem-numbered LaTeX (the de facto standard is `amsthm`/`amsmath`), and the **45-page** main-text limit (incl. references and appendices; font ≥12pt, line spacing ≥1.5, margins ≥1.25in) actively rewards economy — verbose motivation costs pages you need for the proof architecture. This is a sharper formal register than the narrative style that suits AER / QJE / JPE / REStud. Concretely: 1. **State the result early.** The introduction should reach the contribution — ideally an informal statement of the
- When to trigger
- The Econometrica register
- Mathematical exposition
- Structure of a methods/theory paper
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecta-writing-style skill do?
Use as a late-stage polish for an Econometrica manuscript to enforce the terse, formal, theorem-numbered house style and clean mathematical exposition. Polishes prose and notation; it does not fix the proof (use ecta-theory-model) or the simulations (use ecta-robustness).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecta-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.