smj-writing-style
Use for late-stage prose polish of a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript — clarity, structure, and house style. Improves the writing; it does not change the theory, analysis, or contribution claim.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smj-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 & House Conventions (smj-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Theory, analysis, and contribution are settled and you are polishing the full draft - Prose is jargon-heavy, hedged, or buries the argument - Section structure does not follow the expected strategy-empirical arc - Reviewers flagged readability, redundancy, or an unclear through-line > Polish late. Editing prose while the identification strategy or contribution is unsettled wastes effort — return to the earlier skills first. ## Expected structure (full empirical paper) Introduction → Theory & Hypotheses → Methods (sample, measures, identification) → Results → Discussion (contribution, implications, limitations, future research) → References. Theory-building qualitative and formal papers vary this arc but still foreground the strategy contribution early. - **Introduction** does heavy lifting: motivate, name the conversation, state the gap and the contribution, preview the design and findings. A reader should know your contribution by the end of page two. - **Discussion** must add interpretation, not re-list results: what the findings mean for strategy theory, boundaries, honest limitations, and a forward age
- When to trigger
- Expected structure (full empirical paper)
- Style rules SMJ readers reward
- House conventions (verify current Author Guidelines)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Templates & resources
What does the smj-writing-style skill do?
Use for late-stage prose polish of a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript — clarity, structure, and house style. Improves the writing; it does not change the theory, analysis, or contribution claim.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smj-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.