jpam-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — a clear policy implication stated without overclaiming, legible to economists, political scientists, public-management scholars, and practitioners. Improves clarity and calibration; it does not change the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-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 (jpam-writing-style) The JPAM house voice is **clear, calibrated, and decision-oriented**. A JPAM paper earns its place by stating a **policy implication the design actually supports** — neither buried in hedges nor inflated beyond what was identified. Write for a reader who may be an economist, a political scientist, a public- management scholar, or a practitioner, and who wants to know: what did you find, how credible is it, and what should we do about it. ## When to trigger - Drafting the abstract, introduction, or the policy-implications / conclusion section - A reviewer said the paper "overclaims," "buries the finding," or "isn't legible to non-economists" - Calibrating the strength of the policy recommendation to the evidence - Tightening jargon for the cross-disciplinary APPAM audience ## The JPAM introduction arc `Policy problem & decision → what's known and the gap → the policy/program studied → the credible design (named as a tool) → the headline effect in policy units → the cost-benefit / distributional takeaway → the calibrated implication → brief roadmap.` The reader should know the finding **and** what it means for policy by the end of the first page.
- When to trigger
- The JPAM introduction arc
- Calibrated implication (the JPAM signature)
- Cross-disciplinary legibility
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Overclaim vs. calibrated (illustrative contrasts)
- Calibration anchors (hedged)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jpam-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — a clear policy implication stated without overclaiming, legible to economists, political scientists, public-management scholars, and practitioners. Improves clarity and calibration; it does not change the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-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.