worlddev-writing-style

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-writing-style --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Writing Style (worlddev-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro opens with a methods or literature gap rather than a development problem - The prose is dense with one discipline's jargon (econometrics or critical-theory) and shuts out the rest - The abstract reports techniques but not the "so what for development" - The discussion stops at "we find X" without saying what it means for policy or practice - The paper reads as written for the author's subfield, not for WD's global, cross-disciplinary audience ## Writing for the WD reader WD is read by economists, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, public-health and practice communities, and policymakers across the global South and North. The house voice is **clear, evidence-driven, and accessible across disciplines without being shallow.** Two failure modes bracket it: economics papers that read as technical reports with no human or institutional texture, and critical/qualitative papers that disappear into theoretical vocabulary. The WD register sits between — rigorous, but legible to a reader from the next discipline over and useful to someone who must act on the finding. ### The intro WD rewards (a sequence) 1.