jep-narrative-arc
Use when structuring a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article as a story/argument for a general economist reader rather than a literature survey. Builds the essay's spine (hook → tension → synthesis → takeaways); it does not handle sentence-level voice or evidence presentation.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-narrative-arc --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.
# Narrative Arc for JEP (jep-narrative-arc) ## When to trigger - The draft is organized like a survey ("Section 2 reviews X, Section 3 reviews Y") - A reader can't say what the *argument* is, only what topics are covered - The piece has no hook and no payoff — it informs but does not move - You have takeaways from the proposal but no through-line connecting them ## The JEP arc A JEP article is an **essay with an argument**, not a catalog. The reliable arc for a broad economist audience: 1. **Hook** — a concrete puzzle, surprising fact, vivid example, or live debate that a non-specialist immediately feels. Open with the *question*, never with "the literature on X is large." 2. **Stakes / "why now"** — why this matters and why now, in a paragraph anyone in the AEA can follow. 3. **Tension** — the central disagreement, puzzle, or shift the article will resolve or illuminate. Synthesis is interesting only when there is something *at issue*. 4. **Synthesis** — the body: organized by *ideas and the argument's logic*, not by paper or by author. Each section advances the through-line; evidence is recruited to the argument (see `jep-evidence-without-equations`), competing views are weighed
- When to trigger
- The JEP arc
- Structural tests
- Symposium-aware structuring
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jep-narrative-arc skill do?
Use when structuring a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article as a story/argument for a general economist reader rather than a literature survey. Builds the essay's spine (hook → tension → synthesis → takeaways); it does not handle sentence-level voice or evidence presentation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-narrative-arc --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.