joc-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution. JoC readers span communication subfields and traditions, so the paper must engage the literatures they expect rather than only a single platform or topic niche. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill joc-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (joc-literature-positioning) JoC is read across communication's subfields, and a frequent reason strong-looking submissions stall is that they engage **only one narrow literature** and miss the broader conversation. Positioning is not throat-clearing — it places the paper where a **field-wide** communication audience can see the gap and the move. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate" - Your platform/topic literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to communication broadly - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers ## How JoC wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the debate, not a pile of citations.** Identify the live disagreement or open question your paper speaks to. Cite the works that *define* it, including across subfields where relevant. 2. **Two audiences at once.** Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) *and* generalists (why it matters). The intro should make a media-effects reader care about a computational-comm paper and vice versa. 3. **Name the gap precisely.** Not "little i
- When to trigger
- How JoC wants the literature engaged
- Cross-subfield engagement (a distinctive JoC demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Journal of Communication
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the joc-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution. JoC readers span communication subfields and traditions, so the paper must engage the literatures they expect rather than only a single platform or topic niche. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill joc-literature-positioning --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.