tar-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — front-loading the result, writing for an accounting audience, enforcing Chicago Manual of Style house conventions, the 150-word abstract, and full author anonymization for double-blind review. Polishes prose and style; it does not fix a thin contribution (tar-contribution-framing) or run the submission preflight (tar-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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 (tar-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro buries the result; the reader cannot tell the finding by the end of page 2 - The prose is passive, jargon-laden, or written for a generic business audience - References are in APA or a reference-manager default rather than Chicago - The abstract exceeds 150 words or the manuscript leaks author identity - A reviewer says "hard to follow," "what did you find?", or flags style issues ## Write for the accounting reader, result first TAR's audience is accounting researchers, editors, and a minimum of two expert reviewers. The intro should, within the first page or two, state **the question, the setting/identification, the finding, and the contribution** — do not make the reader wait for the result. Use the standard archival structure (introduction, hypothesis/model development, research design, results, conclusion) and keep terminology precise: "discretionary accruals," "abnormal audit fees," "cash effective tax rate," "cost of equity capital" mean specific things — use them exactly. ## TAR house style (verify against the AAA Manuscript Preparation Guide) - **Citations & references:** **The Chicago Ma
- When to trigger
- Write for the accounting reader, result first
- TAR house style (verify against the AAA Manuscript Preparation Guide)
- Anonymization is a writing task, not just a file task
- Prose discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the tar-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — front-loading the result, writing for an accounting audience, enforcing Chicago Manual of Style house conventions, the 150-word abstract, and full author anonymization for double-blind review. Polishes prose and style; it does not fix a thin contribution (tar-contribution-framing) or run the submission preflight (tar-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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.