gec-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript so it reads for an interdisciplinary, policy-relevant audience within the word and abstract caps. GEC values clarity and rigor that travel across disciplines. Polishes the writing; it does not draft the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-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 (gec-writing-style) A GEC paper must be **rigorous and readable across disciplines**. Reviewers and readers come from environmental social science, governance, economics, geography, and the natural sciences, and many read for policy relevance. Write so each of them can follow the argument — within the length caps. ## When to trigger - Drafting the introduction, abstract, or discussion - A reviewer said the paper is "hard to follow," "jargon-heavy," or "buries the contribution" - Cutting to meet the word cap (Research Articles up to 8,000 words; Perspectives up to 3,000 words; abstract <=250 words) - Writing the abstract and the plain-language framing ## What GEC prose does well 1. **Front-load the contribution.** The introduction states the human/policy problem, the gap, the framework, and the contribution within the first page — not after a long literature tour. 2. **Define terms once, use them consistently.** Contested concepts (vulnerability, resilience, governance, transition) get one definition and stick to it. 3. **Minimize discipline-specific jargon.** Explain unavoidable technical terms; an interdisciplinary reader should not need a glossary. Spell out acron
- When to trigger
- What GEC prose does well
- The abstract (<=250 words)
- Length discipline
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the gec-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript so it reads for an interdisciplinary, policy-relevant audience within the word and abstract caps. GEC values clarity and rigor that travel across disciplines. Polishes the writing; it does not draft the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-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.