etp-writing-style
Use when the prose, abstract, or introduction of an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript does not land the journal's theory-and-practice voice.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-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 (etp-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction takes pages to reach the point; the contribution is buried - The abstract reads as a methods summary, not a contribution statement - The prose could describe any management study — the entrepreneurial phenomenon isn't vivid - The "implications for practice" section is flat and disconnected from the argument - A reviewer says the paper is "hard to follow" or "doesn't read like an entrepreneurship paper" ## The ETP voice ETP prose is **theory-forward and accessible**. It is more conceptual than a finance journal and more practitioner-aware than a pure-theory management outlet — the USASBE heritage means a reader expects the writing to *connect to entrepreneurial reality*. The hallmark is a paper that a sophisticated scholar reads for the theory and a thoughtful practitioner reads for the implication, without either feeling shortchanged. Write in **APA** style, in clear declarative prose, and keep the entrepreneurial phenomenon concrete (real venturing situations, not abstractions about "organizations"). ## Engineer the introduction (do this last) ETP intros reward a tight, signposted opening. A reliable structu
- When to trigger
- The ETP voice
- Engineer the introduction (do this last)
- Make the abstract a contribution, not a recap
- Keep the phenomenon and the mechanism visible
- The discussion and practice section
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the etp-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose, abstract, or introduction of an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript does not land the journal's theory-and-practice voice.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-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.