ier-writing-style
Use when an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's prose, intro, or abstract does not land for a rigor-leaning, broad economics audience. Sharpens the model-to-evidence narrative and the intro; it is a late-stage polish, not a content fix.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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 (ier-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro states what the paper does but never what is *new* and *general* by the end of page two - A theory paper's proofs crowd out the intuition a non-specialist needs - The abstract describes the topic but not the result and the contribution - Reviewers (or coauthors) say the writing is correct but the idea does not "come through" - The draft is over the ≤50-page ceiling and the prose, not the analysis, is the bloat ## The IER voice: rigorous, but legible to a broad audience IER's audience is **broad and rigor-leaning** — a macro theorist, an econometrician, and an applied microeconomist may all referee it. So the writing must satisfy two masters: it must be *formally precise* (an IER referee will not forgive sloppy statements of results or assumptions) and *legible across fields* (the general reader must follow the mechanism without specialist priors). The house voice is not the breezy importance-pitch of a top-5 intro, nor the terse method-first prose of an Econometric Society paper — it is **clear formal economics with the intuition kept in the text**. ### The introduction, IER-style (a four-move structure) 1. **The qu
- When to trigger
- The IER voice: rigorous, but legible to a broad audience
- The introduction, IER-style (a four-move structure)
- Sentence- and section-level craft
- Writing for three referees at once
- Worked example (illustrative)
- The IER intro is not a top-5 intro
- Precision as the house dialect
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix
- Output format
What does the ier-writing-style skill do?
Use when an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's prose, intro, or abstract does not land for a rigor-leaning, broad economics audience. Sharpens the model-to-evidence narrative and the intro; it is a late-stage polish, not a content fix.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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.