wsdm-writing-style

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

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

# WSDM Writing Style Revise a manuscript into the register WSDM's series page announces for itself: "practical yet principled approaches" to search and mining on the Web and the Social Web. That phrase is an editorial instruction. A WSDM paper earns its slot by being simultaneously deployable-sounding and analytically honest - pure benchmark exercises read as under-motivated, pure war stories read as unscientific. The stylistic moves below operationalize that balance. ## Open with the behavioral problem, not the model family WSDM work starts from something users, platforms, or web data actually do: clicks are position-biased, sessions are short, graphs are power-law sparse, feedback loops entrench popularity, adversaries game ranking. The strongest openings name that behavioral fact and make the technical contribution the response to it. ```text Weak (model-first): "Transformer-based architectures have shown promise in recommendation. We propose a novel attention mechanism..." WSDM-shaped (behavior-first): "Users abandon a search session after roughly one unsatisfying page, so a ranker trained on clicks observes almost nothing below rank ten. We show this truncated feedback systema