A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Newms Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-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/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-writing-style .claude/skills/newms-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
newms-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
950 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 the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard…

  • Works in 4 steps: The question, stated plainly for a… → The argument — a named concept or… → The evidence — what method adjudicates… → …
  • Polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The NM&S introduction arc, House-style essentials and Writing for the…, plus 10 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Newms Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing. Shapes the writing; it does not generate findings or design the study.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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 the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8
  • 000-word target
  • Using SAGE Harvard referencing

Example prompts

  • “/newms-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The question, stated plainly for a non-specialist.
  2. The argument — a named concept or mechanism that travels (newms-theory-building).
  3. The evidence — what method adjudicates the leading rival reading (newms-research-design).
  4. Why it matters to new media and society broadly — the interdisciplinary stakes, with scope.

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

Newms Writing Style loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 950 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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). 950 words, ~2,186 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/newms-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
newms-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing. Shapes the writing; it does not generate findings or design the study.

Writing Style (newms-writing-style)

NM&S prose must reach an interdisciplinary audience — sociologists, media and communication scholars, STS researchers, political scientists, and humanists read the same issue — inside a strict ~8,000-word target (all text including notes, references, tables, and charts). Write so a reader two fields away follows the argument, glosses your jargon, and reaches the contribution early.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the introduction or revising for clarity, voice, and length
  • A reviewer said the writing is jargon-heavy, technical-only, or buries the contribution
  • You are over the word target and need to cut without losing the argument

The NM&S introduction arc

By the end of the introduction, a reader should have:

  1. The question, stated plainly for a non-specialist.
  2. The argument — a named concept or mechanism that travels (newms-theory-building).
  3. The evidence — what method adjudicates the leading rival reading (newms-research-design).
  4. Why it matters to new media and society broadly — the interdisciplinary stakes, with scope.

Front-load the contribution; do not make the reader reach the discussion to learn what you claim.

House-style essentials

  • SAGE Harvard referencing (author-date in text, alphabetical reference list). Format consistently; reference managers help but verify the output. Confirm the current style on the live guidelines.
  • Unstructured abstract ~150 words stating purpose, approach, and findings; ≥4 keywords.
  • Gloss travelling concepts. Define "affordance," "datafication," "context collapse," "platformization" the first time — a cross-field reader should not have to know the lineage to follow you.
  • Plain, precise voice. Avoid both engineering jargon and untethered theory-speak; name the platform but lead with the concept.
  • International readership. Don't assume US/Anglophone defaults; gloss country-specific institutions.

Writing for the interdisciplinary reader

TrapFix
Subfield jargon undefinedname it, then gloss it in a clause
Technical method dumplead with what it shows, detail the method second
Theory-speak with no referenttie every abstract claim to a concrete digital-media practice
US-centric assumptionsgloss institutions; engage non-Anglophone work
Contribution buried in discussionmove it into the first page

Concept-first prose map

Every major paragraph should move from the portable idea to the platform case, not the other way around. Use this map when revising an introduction, theory section, or discussion.

Sentence jobStrong NM&S versionWeak version
Opening problemnames a social/media problem a cross-field reader recognizesstarts with one platform feature
Concept sentencedefines the travelling concept in ordinary languagedrops a keyword with no gloss
Site sentenceexplains why this platform/community/data source reveals the concepttreats the site as self-evidently important
Evidence sentencestates what the method can adjudicate and what it cannotlists data without the warrant
Stakes sentencesays what changes for media/social theory, policy, or practicesays the topic is "timely"

If a paragraph begins with platform detail, ask whether the concept can come first. If the answer is no, the paragraph may be descriptive background rather than argument.

Cross-field readability pass

Run a "two fields away" edit before submission.

  • Replace lineage-only phrases with a gloss: do not rely on readers already knowing a debate.
  • Translate platform mechanics into social processes: "recommendation rank" becomes visibility, gatekeeping, labor control, attention allocation, or public formation where appropriate.
  • Keep methods visible but subordinate to the claim: lead with what the design shows, then name the interview, ethnography, content analysis, computational, or mixed-method procedure.
  • Flag local institutions, regulations, and platform cultures that need one sentence of context for international readers.
  • Cut citation strings that only signal belonging to a subfield; keep the citations that carry the conceptual contrast or empirical warrant.
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Managing the word target

The ~8,000-word limit is firm — submissions more than a few hundred words over are not considered. Tactics: cut over-signposted roadmaps; turn scattered quotes into one quote-to-claim table; trim literature that doesn't bear on the gap; move ancillary material to (clearly limited) supplements; remember tables and references count toward the total.

Word-budget triage

When the draft is over target, cut by function rather than by sentence-level trimming.

Section pressureKeepCut or move
Introduction too longquestion, concept, evidence, broad stakesextended roadmap, platform history not needed for the claim
Literature review too longdebates that create the conceptual gapadjacent literatures not used in the argument
Methods too longsampling/data logic and validity warrantsoftware minutiae better suited to supplement
Findings too longexhibit or quote that advances the mechanismrepeated descriptive examples
Discussion too longtheory implication, scope condition, limitationgeneric future-research boilerplate
References too longsources actually used to build the contrastornamental citation clusters

After each cut, check whether the intro arc still contains question, argument, evidence, and broad stakes. A shorter paper that loses the portable concept is not a better NM&S paper.

Claim-calibration edit

NM&S prose should not overclaim from platform-specific evidence. Calibrate verbs to evidence strength.

Evidence baseSafe verbRisky verb
qualitative or ethnographic patternshows, illustrates, elaborates, revealsproves, measures universally
content/discourse analysismaps, identifies, tracesdemonstrates individual behavior
computational trace datadetects, estimates, classifies, modelscaptures social reality directly
mixed methodstriangulates, integrates, explainssettles all mechanisms
single platform/countrysuggests, specifies, boundsgeneralizes globally

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

Before (buries it): "This paper examines couriers' experiences with platform algorithms using interviews."
After (front-loads): "Why do gig couriers discipline themselves to an algorithm they cannot see? We
  argue opaque ranking produces *datafied control* — anticipatory self-discipline — and show it through
  digital ethnography that separates control from mere gaming of the system."

Calibration anchors

  • Two fields away is the test. If a reader outside your subfield can't follow the intro, revise.
  • The ~8,000 target is all-in. Notes, references, and tables count; write lean from the start.
  • Lead with the concept, name the platform second. The idea is the contribution; the app is the site.

Anti-patterns

  • An introduction that reaches the contribution only in the discussion
  • Undefined travelling concepts assumed known to all readers
  • Engineering or theory jargon with no concrete referent
  • Over-signposted "Section 2 reviews… Section 3 describes…" roadmaps eating the word budget
  • Treating the ~8,000-word target as excluding references/tables (it does not)

Output format

【Intro arc】question / argument / evidence / broad stakes all present? [Y/N each]
【Jargon glossed】travelling concepts defined on first use? [Y/N]
【Referencing】SAGE Harvard, consistent? [Y/N]
【Length】within ~8,000 words incl. notes/refs/tables? [Y/N — current count]
【Cross-field pass】concept first / platform second / local context glossed? [Y/N]
【Cut plan】sections to cut or move before submission
【Claim calibration】verbs match evidence strength? [Y/N]
【Next】newms-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 New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Newms Writing Style

What does Newms Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard…. Newms Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing.

When should I use Newms Writing Style?

Newms Writing Style fits situations like: polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8; 000-word target; using SAGE Harvard referencing.

How do I install Newms Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Newms Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Newms Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Newms 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 Newms 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 Newms Writing Style use?

Newms 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 Newms Writing Style use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k 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 Newms 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.