How to use Academic Writing in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill helps you write scholarly papers, organize research, and manage citations across different academic styles. Whether you're drafting a research paper, conducting a literature review, or preparing a grant proposal, it guides you through the structure, style, and conventions of academic writing. Perfect for researchers, graduate students, professors, and anyone publishing scholarly work.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Academic Writing skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing

Add the skill at https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing

Add this skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• Writing a research paper or journal article for publication
• Conduct a systematic literature review for your study
• Drafting a grant proposal or thesis chapter
• Properly format citations in a specific academic style

What this skill does

• Structures research papers with proper IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion)
• Manages citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver styles
• Develops research questions using systematic criteria (feasibility, novelty, relevance)
• Organizes literature reviews by theme with database search strategies
• Guides academic writing style including voice, tense, hedging language, and transitions