jeg-writing-style
Use when polishing Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) prose — abstract, introduction, model exposition, empirical-result and magnitude-translation paragraphs, APA author-year references, keywords, JEL codes, and Springer Nature declarations for growth and comparative-development manuscripts.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-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 (jeg-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The paper is technically complete but the growth contribution is not legible - Abstract, introduction, or model section needs JEG-specific tightening - Springer metadata, APA references, declarations, or keywords need final polish ## Style principles - Lead with the growth question and mechanism. - State whether the paper is theoretical, empirical, or mixed. - Translate estimates or model results into growth economics: convergence, long-run income, productivity, fertility, human capital, technology, institutions. - Keep claims bounded to the sample, model, and identifying assumptions. - Use author-year citations with an APA 7 style reference list. ## Abstract repair pattern Use this order: ```text Question -> growth mechanism -> method/data/model -> headline result -> scope/implication. ``` Avoid abstracts that lead with "we develop a model" or "we use a panel" without naming the growth mechanism. For JEG, method is persuasive only after the growth question is clear. ## Mechanism-first introduction The first two pages should answer: - What growth fact or dynamic pattern is hard to explain? - Which mechanism is proposed: human
- When to trigger
- Style principles
- Abstract repair pattern
- Mechanism-first introduction
- Magnitude translation rules
- Worked vignette — rewriting a persistence-results paragraph
- Section architecture in accepted articles (hedged)
- Submission-sensitive details
- Output format
What does the jeg-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) prose — abstract, introduction, model exposition, empirical-result and magnitude-translation paragraphs, APA author-year references, keywords, JEL codes, and Springer Nature declarations for growth and comparative-development manuscripts.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-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.