jegeo-writing-style
Use when the prose, intro, or abstract of a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript must reach economists and geographers at once. Tunes voice, structure, and the 100-word abstract; it does not invent results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-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 (jegeo-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro lands for one community but alienates the other — too much formalism for geographers, or too much narrative for economists - The abstract is over the JEG limit or buries the spatial contribution - The paper reads as "applied economics with maps" rather than economic geography - Jargon from one tradition (NEG notation, or geography theory-speak) is unexplained for the other half of the audience ## Writing for two audiences without watering down The hardest craft problem at JEG is that **every paragraph is read by an economist and a geographer**, and the masthead is drawn from both. The goal is not to dilute to a lowest common denominator but to make each move legible across the bridge: - **Lead with the spatial economic question and its stakes**, in plain English, before any model or method. Both communities should agree on what the paper is about by the end of paragraph one. - **Translate, don't drop, the technical apparatus.** A formal modeler should state the mechanism in prose before the equations; a conceptual theorist should give a concrete instance before the abstraction. - **Name the mechanism, not just the
- When to trigger
- Writing for two audiences without watering down
- The JEG intro arc
- The abstract (a hard constraint)
- Prose discipline
- Where to put the model and the geography
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Translating across the bridge — concrete moves
- Output format
What does the jegeo-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose, intro, or abstract of a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript must reach economists and geographers at once. Tunes voice, structure, and the 100-word abstract; it does not invent results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-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.