newms-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing. Shapes the writing; it does not generate findings or design the study.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-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 (newms-writing-style) NM&S prose must reach an **interdisciplinary** audience — sociologists, media and communication scholars, STS researchers, political scientists, and humanists read the same issue — inside a strict **~8,000-word target** (all text including notes, references, tables, and charts). Write so a reader two fields away follows the argument, glosses your jargon, and reaches the contribution early. ## When to trigger - Drafting the introduction or revising for clarity, voice, and length - A reviewer said the writing is jargon-heavy, technical-only, or buries the contribution - You are over the word target and need to cut without losing the argument ## The NM&S introduction arc By the end of the introduction, a reader should have: 1. **The question**, stated plainly for a non-specialist. 2. **The argument** — a named concept or mechanism that *travels* (`newms-theory-building`). 3. **The evidence** — what method adjudicates the leading rival reading (`newms-research-design`). 4. **Why it matters to new media and society broadly** — the interdisciplinary stakes, with scope. Front-load the contribution; do not make the reader reach the discussion to learn
- When to trigger
- The NM&S introduction arc
- House-style essentials
- Writing for the interdisciplinary reader
- Concept-first prose map
- Cross-field readability pass
- Managing the word target
- Word-budget triage
- Claim-calibration edit
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the newms-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing. Shapes the writing; it does not generate findings or design the study.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-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.