jedpsych-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing a Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript to fit its format — generally under 12,000 words (excluding references/tables/figures/appendices), a 250-word abstract, APA 7th-edition style, double-spaced, and fully masked for blind review. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-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 (jedpsych-writing-style) The Journal of Educational Psychology uses a full-length APA format with real room to develop theory, method, and results — manuscripts generally **do not exceed 12,000 words** excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准), with a **250-word abstract**, **APA 7th edition** style, double-spaced. Writing well here means a disciplined empirical arc that earns its length, stays **masked**, and keeps the educational-psychology contribution legible throughout. This skill is about fitting and polishing — not generating claims. ## When to trigger - Drafting the manuscript or doing final polish - Over the word budget and needing to cut without losing the argument - Writing the **250-word** abstract - Aligning to APA 7th edition and anonymizing for masked review ## The format (know it cold) - **Length:** generally **≤ 12,000 words** (≈ 40 double-spaced pages, 12-pt Times New Roman), **excluding** references, tables, figures, and appendices. - **Abstract:** **≤ 250 words** on a separate page. - **Style:** **APA 7th edition**, double-spaced; statistics reported with effect sizes and CIs. - **Masked review:** the first page om
- When to trigger
- The format (know it cold)
- Writing to the format
- Worked micro-example — a 250-word abstract skeleton (illustrative)
- Word-budget allocation (illustrative, full-length)
- Cutting-to-format playbook
- Prose-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jedpsych-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing a Journal of Educational Psychology manuscript to fit its format — generally under 12,000 words (excluding references/tables/figures/appendices), a 250-word abstract, APA 7th-edition style, double-spaced, and fully masked for blind review. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-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.