finman-writing-style
Use when the prose, abstract, or introduction of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript buries the idea or its managerial/market payoff — FM's brand is "articles people actually read." Shapes exposition for a general finance audience; it does not establish results (finman-identification) or run the submission preflight (finman-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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 (finman-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract and intro state what was done but not why a finance reader (or a practitioner) should care - The paper reads like a technical report — correct, dense, and unread - The contribution is buried under literature review or methodology before the finding appears - You are doing the final exposition pass before submission (do this *after* the evidence settles) ## The FM writing bar FM is unusually explicit that it wants **"a finance journal that publishes academic articles that people actually read."** That is a writing standard, not a slogan. The exposition is judged on whether a **general finance audience** — not just the immediate subfield — grasps the question, the answer, and the **practical relevance** quickly, and whether the paper **provokes and furthers debate.** Concretely: the abstract and first page must deliver the finding and its managerial/market implication before any apparatus; jargon that only insiders parse is a cost; and the "so-what for managers, investors, or regulators" must be stated, not left for the reader to infer. This is the lane that separates FM from siblings whose house voice tolerates
- When to trigger
- The FM writing bar
- The exposition build (in order)
- The first-page test (FM's hardest sentence-level bar)
- Checklist
- Writing the implications so they survive a skeptical read
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix
- Output format
What does the finman-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose, abstract, or introduction of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript buries the idea or its managerial/market payoff — FM's brand is "articles people actually read." Shapes exposition for a general finance audience; it does not establish results (finman-identification) or run the submission preflight (finman-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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.