What it is
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.
What it 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
Use it when
- You're writing a research paper or journal article for publication
- You need to conduct a systematic literature review for your study
- You're drafting a grant proposal or thesis chapter
- You need to properly format citations in a specific academic style
Add this skill to your AI
Copy the source URL and ask your AI to add it. Most coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf — will fetch and install it for you.
Try this prompt:
Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/academic-writing