wber-writing-style
Use when the prose for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript buries the development-policy contribution — abstract, introduction, and the bridge from estimate to policy lesson. Sharpens the writing for a mixed economist + policymaker audience; it does not run analysis or build exhibits.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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 (wber-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract states a topic, not a result, and never names the policy stake - The introduction takes three pages to reach the question - The paper reads either as a dry econometrics exercise or as an advocacy brief — not the WBER middle - The bridge from "we estimate X" to "so development policy should consider Y" is missing - A coauthor says the writing does not sound like a WBER paper ## The WBER voice WBER writing serves a **dual audience**: economists who demand precision and policymakers/practitioners who demand relevance. The house voice is **rigorous but legible** — technically exact, jargon-controlled, and always closing the loop to a development-policy implication. Two failure modes bracket it: prose so technical that a finance-ministry reader gives up, and prose so policy-breathless that an economist distrusts it. Aim for the middle: state the credible result plainly, then say what it means for a development decision *without* overclaiming and *without* implying alignment with any World Bank position (editorial independence is explicit). Write the body first; write the abstract and introduction last, once the resul
- When to trigger
- The WBER voice
- The introduction recipe (WBER variant)
- The abstract
- Prose discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Calibrating the technical register
- Output format
What does the wber-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript buries the development-policy contribution — abstract, introduction, and the bridge from estimate to policy lesson. Sharpens the writing for a mixed economist + policymaker audience; it does not run analysis or build exhibits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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.