revacc-writing-style
Use when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and adopting the accounting house voice. Polishes the manuscript; it does not sharpen the contribution claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (revacc-tables-figures).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-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 (revacc-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction buries the result under setup and literature - The abstract describes the topic but not the finding or its implication - The prose is passive, jargon-heavy, or reads like a finance paper that forgot the accounting - An analytical paper drowns the intuition in notation before the reader sees the payoff - You are doing the final pass and the manuscript voice does not match RAST's ## Write the contribution first, everywhere RAST's first-round-decision culture rewards a manuscript whose contribution is unmissable on page one. The intro should reach the **result and its accounting implication within the first page** — not after three pages of institutional background. Use the canonical accounting-paper intro arc, compressed: 1. **The accounting question** in one or two sentences, with why it matters for reporting/markets. 2. **What you do** — the setting, design or model, in one paragraph. 3. **What you find** — the headline result with its economic magnitude (or the proposition with its accounting reading). 4. **Why it is credible** — the identification or the modeling move, briefly. 5. **The contribution** —
- When to trigger
- Write the contribution first, everywhere
- The abstract has to do real work
- The accounting house voice
- Sequence and scope
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the revacc-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and adopting the accounting house voice. Polishes the manuscript; it does not sharpen the contribution claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (revacc-tables-figures).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-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.