rof-writing-style
Use when revising a Review of Finance manuscript for a 150-word abstract, double-blind wording, Chicago-style references, first-order finance framing, two-round review discipline, and 60-page total manuscript constraint.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-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.
# Review of Finance Writing Style Use this after the core result is stable. RoF is read across all of finance — empirical and theoretical — and held to top-three-finance-journal standards, so the prose must make a first-order contribution legible to a general finance reader fast, not read as a narrow field-journal appendix. Polish only once identification/results (empirical) or assumptions/results (theory) are settled. ## When to trigger - The prose buries the contribution; a reader cannot find it quickly. - The abstract exceeds 150 words or never states the finding. - The introduction wanders before reaching the question and the result. ## Revision rules - Keep the abstract within the 150-word limit and make the finance contribution explicit: open with the question and approach, then state the result (a number for empirical work, the proposition for theory), and close with the economic implication. Count the words. - Follow the RoF intro arc: question, why it is open or hard, setting/approach, headline result early, mechanism and interpretation, contribution against the top-three frontier, brief roadmap. - Preserve double-blind anonymity: no author-identifying references, acknowle
- When to trigger
- Revision rules
- Abstract rebuild — worked example
- Five edit passes for the general-finance reader
- Prose objections from RoF reports and the fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rof-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising a Review of Finance manuscript for a 150-word abstract, double-blind wording, Chicago-style references, first-order finance framing, two-round review discipline, and 60-page total manuscript constraint.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-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.