jole-writing-style
Use when polishing prose, the 100-word abstract, and the introduction for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript — Chicago author-date references, the 20,000-word economy, and a general labor-economics audience. Polishes exposition; it does not change results or design.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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 (jole-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract exceeds **100 words** or does not state the finding - The introduction wanders before reaching the labor question and the result - Citations are not in **Chicago author-date** style, or are ordered wrong in-text - Sentences are jargon-dense for a general labor-economics readership ## JOLE house style: precise, economical, audience = labor economists JOLE is read across labor economics, not by one subfield, so the prose must make a labor question legible to any labor economist while respecting a strict word economy. Format facts that directly shape the writing: - **100-word abstract.** This is short — there is no room for throat-clearing. Open with the question and design, **state the result with a number**, and close with the labor takeaway. Count the words. - **~20,000-word soft cap, full-page table/figure = 500 words.** Every paragraph and every exhibit competes for the same budget; relocate heavy detail to a bounded online appendix rather than padding the body. - **Chicago author-date references**, with the JOLE convention that in-text citations are ordered **chronologically, then alphabetically within the sa
- When to trigger
- JOLE house style: precise, economical, audience = labor economists
- The introduction arc (JOLE labor template)
- Abstract: state the finding in ≤ 100 words
- Sentence-level craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jole-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing prose, the 100-word abstract, and the introduction for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript — Chicago author-date references, the 20,000-word economy, and a general labor-economics audience. Polishes exposition; it does not change results or design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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.