jedpsych-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript against the educational-psychology literature. JEP gives more room than a short-report journal (up to ~12,000 words), but the contribution must still be stated as a precise advance over the closest prior learning/instruction work, not a survey. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (jedpsych-literature-positioning) The Journal of Educational Psychology allows a fuller introduction than a short-report venue — manuscripts generally run up to **12,000 words** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) — but length is not license to survey. Positioning must establish the **open question in learning/instruction**, the **closest prior work**, and the **precise advance** your study makes. JEP reviewers are subject-matter experts who know the relevant literature cold, so a vague or selective review reads as a weak contribution, not a thorough one. ## When to trigger - Drafting or restructuring the Introduction - A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "not novel," or "ignores X's work" - You have a sprawling background section that buries the question - Connecting a specific finding to a broad educational-psychology question ## How to position 1. **Open with the educational question and its stakes.** Why this learning/motivation/achievement problem matters for theory *and* for practice — not a textbook history of the construct. 2. **Name the gap precisely.** What is unresolved, contested, or untested in the literature on this instruction or process — and
- When to trigger
- How to position
- Replications and extensions
- Citation triage (depth without sprawl)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jedpsych-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript against the educational-psychology literature. JEP gives more room than a short-report journal (up to ~12,000 words), but the contribution must still be stated as a precise advance over the closest prior learning/instruction work, not a survey. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-literature-positioning --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.