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Acl Writing Style

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Acl Writing Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills acl-writing-style --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ACL-Skills/skills/acl-writing-style .claude/skills/acl-writing-style && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
acl-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
668 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language…

  • Revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style
  • SKILL.md covers First-page contract, Claim scoping in the LLM era, Examples and error analysis as… and Anonymity-compatible voice, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering task-first framing

What it does

Acl Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style
  • Covering task-first framing
  • Linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis
  • Scoping language claims to tested languages

Example prompts

  • “/acl-writing-style”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Acl Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 668 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 668 words, ~1,426 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/acl-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
acl-writing-style
description
Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.

ACL Writing Style

Use this on the manuscript itself. ACL reviewers are NLP specialists who read for whether the paper understands language as well as models; the style that survives them is concrete, example-grounded, and precisely scoped.

First-page contract

  • Open with the task or linguistic phenomenon, not the model family: what goes in, what comes out, why it is hard, and for whom.
  • State the contribution as a typed claim by paragraph two: new method, new resource, new analysis, or new finding — ACL reviews are calibrated per type.
  • Give one real example (input, desired output, failure of the status quo) on page one; abstract problem statements without an example read as vague at this venue.
  • Say what languages the paper covers in the abstract if the answer is not "English only" — and if it is, say that too.

Claim scoping in the LLM era

Reflex phrasingACL-safe phrasing
"LLMs cannot do X""The five models tested fail X under these prompts"
"Our method understands Y""Improves the Y benchmark by n points; error classes A, B shrink"
"Works across languages""Evaluated on de/hi/sw/zh/ar; typological coverage discussed in §7"
"Significantly better"Reserve for tested significance; give the test and p-value or interval
"State-of-the-art"Scope to the exact setting, model scale, and date checked

Reviewers increasingly ask whether a result is a property of the task, the model snapshot, or the prompt; write so each claim names which.

Examples and error analysis as prose

  • Every qualitative example must be attached to a number: how often the illustrated behavior occurs, in which slice, under which condition. Cherry-picked generations presented as evidence is a named reject pattern.
  • Use interlinear glosses or transliteration conventions correctly for non-English examples; sloppy linguistics costs credibility with exactly the reviewers who like the paper's topic.
  • Name error categories functionally ("negation-scope errors") rather than narratively ("the model gets confused").

Anonymity-compatible voice

  • Write self-reference in third person: "Smith (2024) introduced X," never "In our previous work." Keep it in place until camera-ready.
  • Do not cite "anonymous (under review)" material that reviewers cannot read; ARR bars relying on documents unavailable to them.
  • Acknowledgements, funding, and AI-assistance credits are omitted at submission and added at camera-ready.
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Compression into 8 (or 4) pages

  • The short-paper form is a single sharp point with one strong experiment — do not shrink a long paper into four pages; re-argue it.
  • Push prompt dumps, per-language tables, and hyperparameter grids to the appendix; keep one summary row of each in the body (see acl-supplementary).
  • Kill the related-work-as-inventory section; two paragraphs of positioned contrast beat a page of citations (see acl-related-work).
  • Figures earn their space only when they carry an argument — pipeline diagrams restating the text are the first cut.

Limitations and ethics prose

  • Write Limitations as the referee brief against yourself: scope, data coverage, model dependence, evaluation validity. Specificity here is protected — ACL instructs reviewers not to penalize honest limitations.
  • The optional ethics statement is for real stakes: human data, dual use, representational harm. A boilerplate ethics paragraph is worse than none.

Micro-edit pass

text
weak:   "We leverage powerful LLMs to achieve impressive gains."
strong: "Reranking with a 7B model cuts negation-scope errors from
         31% to 12% of sampled failures (Table 4)."

weak:   "Performance is good across all settings."
strong: "Gains hold on 4 of 5 languages; Swahili degrades (-1.2 F1),
         which §7 traces to tokenizer fragmentation."

Terminology and notation discipline

  • Pick one name per concept and hold it: a system called "our reranker," "the verifier," and "the LLM judge" in three sections reads as three systems to a tired reviewer.
  • Define task-specific terms at first use, even standard-seeming ones — "hallucination," "faithfulness," and "robustness" each have three incompatible literatures behind them.
  • Dataset names get their citation at first mention and exact split names thereafter ("XNLI dev-matched," not "the dev set").
  • Numbers in prose match tables to the decimal; reviewers diff them.
  • Language codes: introduce once (ISO 639), then use consistently in tables, figures, and prose alike.

Section-level failure smells

  • An introduction with no example → underspecified task (fix first).
  • A method section narrating engineering chronology ("we first tried...") → rewrite as design with rationale.
  • A results section that re-reads the table aloud → replace with claims the table supports plus pointers into it.
  • A conclusion introducing new claims → move them into results or delete; ACL reviewers treat conclusions as summaries under oath.

Output format

text
[Style diagnosis] task-first / model-first / survey-ish / underspecified
[First-page fix] <one concrete rewrite>
[Overclaim list] <claim -> scoped version>
[Example-evidence gaps] <anecdotes lacking counts>
[Compression plan] <cut / move / merge>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in ACL-Skills/skills/acl-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Acl Writing Style

What does Acl Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language…. Acl Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style, covering task-first framing, linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis, scoping language claims to tested languages, LLM-era claim discipline, anonymous self-reference, Limitations prose, and compressing into the 8-page or 4-page ACL format.

When should I use Acl Writing Style?

Acl Writing Style fits situations like: revising an ACL paper for computational-linguistics house style; covering task-first framing; linguistic examples tied to quantitative error analysis; scoping language claims to tested languages.

How do I install Acl Writing Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ACL-Skills/skills/acl-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/acl-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Acl Writing Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ACL-Skills/skills/acl-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/acl-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Acl Writing Style in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-writing-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/acl-writing-style, .gemini/skills/acl-writing-style, .github/skills/acl-writing-style and .opencode/skills/acl-writing-style in your project.

What does Acl Writing Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Acl Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does Acl Writing Style access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Acl Writing Style safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Acl Writing Style use?

Acl Writing Style is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Acl Writing Style use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Acl Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.