phg-writing-style
Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords. Polishes prose and format; it does not build the argument.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill phg-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 (phg-writing-style) A PiHG essay should read as an **authoritative, argument-led intervention** by someone who commands a field — not as a neutral survey and not as an empirical report. This skill sets the voice, enforces the journal's format constraints, and catches the stylistic tells that mark a piece as annotated bibliography or misfit empirical study. Apply it after the argument is built, as a polish pass. ## When to trigger - The argument is settled and you are drafting/revising prose - Fitting an over-length essay into the short inclusive cap - Writing the abstract, keywords, and introduction to lead with the contribution - A reviewer said the prose "buries the argument" or "reads like a summary" ## The PiHG voice - **Argument-forward.** Every section advances the thesis; the reader always knows what is being argued and why. Topic sentences state ideas, not authors (`phg-argument-synthesis`). - **Authoritative but fair.** Command without polemic; steelman before critique (`phg-critical-intervention`). - **Synthetic register.** Write *about the field*, not *about each paper* — cite in support of claims, in clusters, rather than walking through sources one by o
- When to trigger
- The PiHG voice
- Format constraints (verify on the live SAGE page)
- Budgeting the short cap
- The abstract in ~100 words
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the phg-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords. Polishes prose and format; it does not build the argument.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill phg-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.