restud-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — introduction, abstract, and overall economy of exposition — so the original contribution reads clearly and elegantly. Polishes writing; does not change results, design, or model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.
# REStud Writing Style (restud-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction runs long and buries the contribution - The abstract reads as motivation rather than result - Prose is wordy; the reader cannot find the one clean point quickly - The paper is technically done but reads as a working paper, not a REStud article - A seminar comment was "I couldn't tell what the contribution was" ## REStud house style REStud prizes a contribution "presented rigorously **and economically**," and it must read well to **both** a theorist and an applied economist — the journal's defining balance since its 1933 founding. The writing standard follows: - **Clarity over flourish.** Plain, precise English. The reader should never reread a sentence to parse it. - **Economy.** Say it once, well. Cut sentences that restate. The elegance the journal rewards is partly a property of the prose — and the manuscript must fit the **~45-page** cap, so the main text carries intuition while full proofs and bulky robustness go to the **online appendix**. - **Result-forward.** The reader learns what the paper finds early — in the abstract, and again in the first page — not after five pages of motivation. - **
- When to trigger
- REStud house style
- The introduction
- The abstract
- Prose discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the restud-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — introduction, abstract, and overall economy of exposition — so the original contribution reads clearly and elegantly. Polishes writing; does not change results, design, or model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.