Scientific Writing — Development skill for Claude Code

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What is this?

A [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) **skill** of a actionable guidance you can use while writing, editing, reviewing, and presenting research.

Once installed, Claude consults the skill **automatically** whenever you're working on a paper, abstract, title, figure, reviewer response, or talk — even from a casual prompt like *"make this paragraph tighter"* or *"is this abstract okay?"*

The book's principles apply to any field.

What it covers

The skill spans the **full research‑communication lifecycle**:

• deciding whether/where to publish, choosing a target journal, page proofs, marketing
• motivation, brainstorming, outlining, the first draft
• paper structure — title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• prose craft — paragraphs, sentences, words (the editing engine)
• revision — the writing/editing funnel, CPR, précis
• figures, tables, equations, and citations
• authorship, author order, plagiarism, and research ethics
• guidance for English‑as‑a‑second‑language authors
• peer review — writing reviews and responding to reviewers
• conference abstracts, slides, delivery, and posters
• workplace, public/media, and career communication

The organizing idea throughout is **writing/editing funnel** — work from the largest scale to the smallest (document → paragraph → sentence → word → punctuation) — and the **CPR** editing pass: **C**oncision, **P**recision, **R**evision.

How it's built

The skill uses **progressive disclosure**: a lean `SKILL.md` router that loads when relevant, plus topic reference files that load only for the matching task.

scientific-writing/
├── SKILL.md                         # router + core method
└── references/
    ├── pre-writing.md