jel-writing-style
Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (jel-organizing-framework) or assign codes (jel-classification-system).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-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.
# JEL Writing Style — the Survey Voice (jel-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The framework and coverage are settled and it is time to make the survey *read* well - A non-specialist economist would get lost or bored in the current draft - The opening buries the field's importance under machinery or throat-clearing - The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a survey abstract ## The JEL voice: authoritative + accessible + long-form A JEL survey is read by **non-specialist economists** — smart, but not in this subfield. The voice is that of a trusted, fair expert teaching the field to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it: 1. **Authoritative.** Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants the author's *appraisal*, not neutrality-as-evasion. But authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted. 2. **Accessible.** Technical machinery is explained with intuition first, notation second. A method is motivated by the question it answers before any formalism. Jargon is defined or avoided; an outsider should follow the argument. 3. **Long-form and signposted.** Survey
- When to trigger
- The JEL voice: authoritative + accessible + long-form
- The survey opening arc
- The abstract
- Length and the reader's stamina
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jel-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (jel-organizing-framework) or assign codes (jel-classification-system).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-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.