jue-writing-style
Use when the prose of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript buries the spatial mechanism, or the intro/abstract do not land for an urban-economics audience. Sharpens the writing to JUE house voice; it does not run analysis or build exhibits. Late-stage — invoke after identification and the mechanism settle.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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 (jue-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction explains the data and method before it says what is *spatially* new - The abstract reads like a generic applied-micro paper — space could be deleted and it would still parse - A reader cannot state the urban mechanism in one sentence after the intro - The policy or theory implication is asserted at the end rather than threaded through - The draft uses spatial-econometrics jargon where a plain mechanism sentence would land harder ## The JUE intro arc JUE referees read the first page to decide whether the paper is a real urban-economics contribution. A JUE introduction should, in order: 1. **Open with the spatial question and why it matters** for cities, housing, or local policy — not with a literature gap. 2. **Name the spatial mechanism** in one sentence a non-specialist urban economist would grasp (capitalization, agglomeration spillover, sorting, congestion, market access). 3. **State the identifying variation** plainly — the boundary, the shift-share, the policy rollout — and why it is credible against sorting and spillovers. 4. **Give the headline magnitude in interpretable units** (a % capitalization, an
- When to trigger
- The JUE intro arc
- House voice
- Section discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Words that signal a JUE paper vs a misfiled one
- Threading the policy reading
- The abstract test
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jue-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript buries the spatial mechanism, or the intro/abstract do not land for an urban-economics audience. Sharpens the writing to JUE house voice; it does not run analysis or build exhibits. Late-stage — invoke after identification and the mechanism settle.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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.