tar-contribution-framing
Use when results exist but the accounting contribution is thin or implicit for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — turning findings into an explicit statement of what the field now knows, with credible bounds and implications. Frames the contribution; it does not build the mechanism (tar-theory-development) or position against the literature (tar-literature-positioning).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (tar-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Results are in but the intro/discussion does not say what the field *learns* - A reviewer writes "contribution is incremental" or "so what for accounting?" - You have several findings and are unsure which one is the contribution - You are tempted to overclaim causality or external validity the design cannot support ## TAR's single bar: significance of the contribution TAR's overriding publication criterion is the **significance of the contribution to the accounting literature**. Method openness means a clean identification or an elegant model is necessary but not sufficient — the paper must change how accounting researchers (and, where relevant, standard-setters, auditors, regulators, or managers) think. Frame the contribution as a *new answer to a disputed question*, not a new dataset or a confirmed prior. ## Write the contribution explicitly, in three registers 1. **To the literature.** Name the conversation (from `tar-literature-positioning`) and state the marginal insight: "We show that [accounting construct] affects [outcome] through [channel], which prior work could not separate from [rival]." Tie it to th
- When to trigger
- TAR's single bar: significance of the contribution
- Write the contribution explicitly, in three registers
- Calibrate the claim to the evidence
- Discussion-section structure
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the tar-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when results exist but the accounting contribution is thin or implicit for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — turning findings into an explicit statement of what the field now knows, with credible bounds and implications. Frames the contribution; it does not build the mechanism (tar-theory-development) or position against the literature (tar-literature-positioning).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-contribution-framing --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.