mgsci-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Management Science (INFORMS) manuscript — front-loading the result, keeping notation lean, writing for a cross-department reader, and conforming to author-year citation house style and the journal's preference for short, focused papers. It polishes prose and style; it does not frame the contribution (mgsci-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (mgsci-tables-figures).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mgsci-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 (mgsci-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The prose is notation-dense, passive, or buries the main result - An analytical paper reads as a symbol dump with no verbal intuition - The writing assumes a reader already inside your sub-niche - You are over length and the text is padded Management Science explicitly **prefers short, focused papers** and warns that excessive length and **notation density slow review**. The style bar is rigor expressed economically and read by editors across many departments. ## Front-load the result State what you find and why it matters in the abstract and the first pages. A Department Editor desk-screening dozens of papers should see the result, the mechanism, and the decision relevance early — not after twenty pages of setup. The abstract is **250 words or less** with **3–5 keywords**; make every word carry the contribution. ## Pair every symbol with intuition (analytical lane) Formal rigor is required, but a Management Science paper is not a proof transcript. For each key model object and result, give the **plain-language reading**: what the assumption means behaviorally, what the proposition says in words, what the comparative static
- When to trigger
- Front-load the result
- Pair every symbol with intuition (analytical lane)
- Write for a cross-department reader
- Citation and format house style
- Length discipline
- Worked micro-example (illustrative): tightening a platform-competition draft
- Referee-pushback patterns and the prose-level fix
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the mgsci-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a Management Science (INFORMS) manuscript — front-loading the result, keeping notation lean, writing for a cross-department reader, and conforming to author-year citation house style and the journal's preference for short, focused papers. It polishes prose and style; it does not frame the contribution (mgsci-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (mgsci-tables-figures).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mgsci-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.