poq-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to public-opinion or survey-methodology scholarship. POQ readers span opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methods, so the paper must engage the right literatures and show the methodological lineage. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill poq-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (poq-literature-positioning) POQ sits at the intersection of **public-opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methodology**. Positioning means showing reviewers — who are often survey scientists — that you know both the substantive debate and the **methodological lineage** your design belongs to. The goal is to place the paper where a POQ reader sees the gap and the move. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the survey-methods literature" - Your substantive framing is solid but the methodological grounding is thin (or vice versa) - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers ## How POQ wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the debate, not a pile of citations.** Identify the live disagreement or open question — substantive (about attitudes, behavior, communication effects) or methodological (about a source of survey error) — that your paper speaks to. 2. **Show the methodological lineage.** A POQ paper almost always inherits a survey-science tradition: the response-rate / nonresponse literatu
- When to trigger
- How POQ wants the literature engaged
- Cross-literature engagement (a POQ demand)
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Public Opinion Quarterly
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the poq-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to public-opinion or survey-methodology scholarship. POQ readers span opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methods, so the paper must engage the right literatures and show the methodological lineage. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill poq-literature-positioning --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.