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Expert knowledge of academic writing standards for peer-reviewed papers, including citation integrity, style compliance, clarity, and scientific writing best practices. Use when reviewing or editing academic manuscripts, papers, or research documentation.
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This skill provides expertise in academic writing standards for peer-reviewed research papers, ensuring clarity, rigour, and adherence to scientific writing conventions.
This skill provides expertise in academic writing standards for peer-reviewed research papers, ensuring clarity, rigour, and adherence to scientific writing conventions.
Prioritise:
Avoid:
Examples of preferred style:
Wordy: "The results clearly demonstrate that the novel approach significantly outperforms existing methods"
Better: "The approach outperforms existing methods"
Complex: "The model—which incorporates multiple data sources; including case counts, hospitalisations, and genomic data—provides insights"
Better: "The model incorporates case counts, hospitalisations, and genomic data. It provides insights"
Passive: "It was found that the infection rate was increasing"
Active: "We found the infection rate increased"
Hedged: "It appears that the results seem to suggest that there might be a relationship"
Direct: "The results suggest a relationship"
Avoid semicolons when possible:
Avoid: "The model includes three components; case counts, delays, and reporting rates"
Better: "The model includes three components: case counts, delays, and reporting rates"
Or: "The model includes three components. These are case counts, delays, and reporting rates"
Avoid excessive em-dashes:
Avoid: "The approach—which we developed over three years—shows promise"
Better: "The approach shows promise. We developed it over three years"
Simplify nested clauses:
Avoid: "The method, which incorporates data from multiple sources, including surveillance systems, which track cases daily, and laboratory reports, provides estimates"
Better: "The method incorporates data from surveillance systems and laboratory reports. It provides estimates"
Common formats to verify:
[@author2024], [@author2024; @other2023][@first2024; @second2024]@author2024 showed that...Check for:
[@placeholder], [@TODO], [@CITE]Citation consistency:
authorYear, author_year)When .bib file available:
When .bib file unavailable:
Flag text that:
Not plagiarism checking:
Poor paraphrasing:
Original: "The model incorporates a hierarchical Bayesian structure with conjugate priors"
Poor: "The approach uses a hierarchical Bayesian framework with conjugate priors"
Good paraphrasing:
Better: "We used Bayesian hierarchical modelling with conjugate prior distributions"
Remove or replace:
Replace with specifics:
Vague: "The model performed well"
Specific: "The model achieved 95% accuracy"
Vague: "We used a large dataset"
Specific: "We used a dataset of 10,000 cases"
Vague: "Results improved substantially"
Specific: "Accuracy improved from 80% to 92%"
Common redundancies to fix:
When reviewing academic writing, structure feedback as:
Reference Issues
Attribution Concerns
Style Improvements
Formatting Issues
Use these standards when:
Maintain scientific rigour whilst improving readability. Always provide specific, actionable feedback with examples.
npx claudepluginhub seabbs/skills --plugin research-academicEnforces academic prose style — topic sentences, active voice, tense, hedging, APA citations. Activates on .qmd/.Rmd/.md/.tex files in research projects.
Produces human-like academic research prose for literature reviews, syntheses, analyses, methodology, discussions, and abstracts, eliminating AI patterns like hedging and formulaic transitions.
Audits academic or technical manuscripts with a section-level refactoring report covering argument architecture, narrative flow, citation hygiene, and submission-readiness.