A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than…

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Install Commres Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-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/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-writing-style .claude/skills/commres-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
commres-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
695 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than…

  • Works in 5 steps: Front-load the contribution. By the end… → Theory → hypotheses → method → results →… → Argument-first prose. Lead with claims;… → …
  • Polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Write as cumulative social…, Format to APA and Fit the page limit (≤ 45…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Commres Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • Polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science
  • Follows APA style
  • Fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references)

Example prompts

  • “/commres-writing-style”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the
  2. Theory → hypotheses → method → results → discussion. Use the standard social-science arc; the
  3. Argument-first prose. Lead with claims; use evidence to support them. Avoid "the data show…"
  4. Minimize subfield jargon or define it on first use; spell out acronyms. CR is read across
  5. Report results in APA. Integrate statistics into prose per APA (M, SD, test with df, effect

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

Commres Writing Style loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 695 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 695 words, ~1,510 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/commres-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
commres-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Writing Style (commres-writing-style)

A CR paper must read as quantitative communication science: a clear theory-to-hypotheses build, an APA-formatted report, and discipline to the 45-page (double-spaced, inclusive of references) limit (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). This skill is about reaching CR's readership and respecting the format — not about generating claims.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the introduction, the "present study / hypotheses" paragraph, or final polish
  • Over the page limit and needing to cut without losing the argument
  • Writing the abstract
  • Aligning citations/headings/statistics to APA before submission

Write as cumulative social science

  1. Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the theory, the hypotheses, and why they matter to communication science. Don't make a reviewer dig.
  2. Theory → hypotheses → method → results → discussion. Use the standard social-science arc; the introduction builds explicitly to numbered hypotheses (and RQs), which the Results test in order.
  3. Argument-first prose. Lead with claims; use evidence to support them. Avoid "the data show…" without saying what they show and why it matters for the theory.
  4. Minimize subfield jargon or define it on first use; spell out acronyms. CR is read across communication science, so a political-comm reader should follow a health-comm paper.
  5. Report results in APA. Integrate statistics into prose per APA (M, SD, test with df, effect size, exact p); keep tense and notation consistent.

Format to APA

  • Citations: author-date per APA; one consistent style (manage with Zotero/BibTeX); references count toward the page limit.
  • Manuscript: double-spaced; report statistics in line with APA (SDs and effect sizes where applicable). Verify the current file/format specifics on the SAGE author page.
  • Anonymize: CR is double-anonymized — no author names/affiliations/acknowledgments in the main document or supplemental materials; write self-citations in the third person; strip file metadata; provide a separate title page.
  • Abstract: concise statement of question, method, and finding (confirm the exact cap on the SAGE page — 待核实).

Fit the page limit (≤ 45 double-spaced pages, inclusive of references)

  • Move full specifications, robustness grids, scale items, and codebooks to the online supplement.
  • Cut throat-clearing and literature dumps; engage the empirical debate, not every paper (see commres-literature-positioning).
  • Prefer one decisive figure (a path diagram or simple-slopes plot) to three redundant tables.
  • Keep the hypotheses tight; do not restate them verbatim in three places.
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Editor and referee expectations on prose (what trips the desk and the review)

CR is SAGE's quantitative social-scientific communication journal, so the editor reads the opening pages asking one question fast: does this test a communication mechanism in a way that advances the cumulative literature? The table maps common prose-level failure signals to what a CR editor infers and the venue-specific fix.

Prose signal the editor seesWhat it reads as at CRSocial-science fix
Platform/dataset named before a communication process"platform write-up, not a test"open on the message/processing/effect process; platform is the site
No numbered hypotheses by the end of the introdescriptive or under-theorizedbuild the intro to explicit H1…Hk (RQs where theory is thin)
Abstract reports a main effect but no mechanismfinding without a contributionstate the mediator/moderator the study tests
Results give stars but no effect sizesnot APA, not interpretablereport d/η²ₚ/β with CIs and substantive meaning

Worked micro-example: tightening a framing-effects abstract (illustrative)

A survey-experiment manuscript tests whether episodic vs. thematic news framing shifts blame attribution. The first abstract reports only "framing had a significant effect (p < .05)." Walking it through the rules: (1) add the effect size and direction — episodic framing raised individual-blame attribution (illustrative d ≈ 0.4); (2) name the mechanism tested — the effect is mediated by perceived personal responsibility (H2), advancing framing theory rather than re-demonstrating it; (3) add the boundary — stronger for low-knowledge respondents (H3). The revised abstract states question, design, the tested mechanism, and a magnitude — reading as cumulative science, not a significance announcement.

Anti-patterns

  • An introduction that never reaches explicit, numbered hypotheses
  • Burying the contribution; an abstract that hides the finding or omits the mechanism
  • Reporting significance without effect sizes (an APA-reporting failure at CR)
  • Mixed citation styles; first-person self-references that break anonymity
  • Letting the manuscript drift over the 45-page limit because supplements were not used

Output format

【Hypotheses stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Reads as cumulative social science?】theory→H→method→results→discussion? [Y/N]
【Results in APA?】effect sizes + CIs/SDs, not stars only? [Y/N]
【Abstract】states question + design + mechanism + finding? cap confirmed?
【Length】≤ 45 double-spaced pp incl. references? [Y/N]
【APA + anonymized + third-person self-cites】[Y/N]
【Next】commres-transparency-and-data

Supplementary resources

© 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 Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Commres Writing Style

What does Commres Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than…. Commres Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references).

When should I use Commres Writing Style?

Commres Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science; follows APA style; fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references).

How do I install Commres Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Commres Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Commres 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 commres-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/commres-writing-style, .gemini/skills/commres-writing-style, .github/skills/commres-writing-style and .opencode/skills/commres-writing-style in your project.

What does Commres Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Commres 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 Commres 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 Commres Writing Style use?

Commres 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 Commres Writing Style use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Commres 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.