jf-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Tightens the introduction so question, finding, and economic magnitude land on page one, trims hedging, and offloads notation to the Internet Appendix; it does not change results or run analyses.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-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 & Exposition (jf-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction does not deliver the question, finding, and magnitude in the first page - Prose is dense, jargon-heavy, or written for a subfield rather than the broad AFA reader - The main finding is buried; the reader has to work to extract the takeaway - Sentences hedge so much the claim disappears ## JF house voice: accessible, precise, general-interest JF is the **AFA flagship**, read across asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, microstructure, and household finance by 8,000+ readers. Writing must be **accessible to a finance reader outside your subfield** while staying precise. The manuscript also faces a **60-page limit** (≥1.5 spacing, 12-pt font), so lead with economics and **offload technical depth to the Internet Appendix** (bundled at the end of the same PDF; see `jf-internet-appendix`) rather than padding the body. ## The JF introduction (first ~3 pages do the work) In order: (1) **the question and why it matters** — general-interest, concrete; (2) **what you do** — design/data/test in plain terms; (3) **what you find** — headline result with its **economic magnitude** in interpretable units; (4
- When to trigger
- JF house voice: accessible, precise, general-interest
- The JF introduction (first ~3 pages do the work)
- Sentence-level discipline
- Page-one diagnostic grid
- Worked vignette — rewriting a buried opening
- Referee-pushback patterns and the JF-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jf-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Tightens the introduction so question, finding, and economic magnitude land on page one, trims hedging, and offloads notation to the Internet Appendix; it does not change results or run analyses.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-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.