research-paper-writing

name	research-paper-writing
description	Use when drafting, rewriting, translating, polishing, or restructuring sections of a research paper, graduation thesis, dissertation, journal manuscript, conference paper, abstract, introduction, related work, methods, experiments, discussion, conclusion, or reviewer-facing revision.

Research Paper Writing

Use this skill to produce clear, evidence-backed academic prose. It supports Chinese graduation theses and English research manuscripts. The writing should make the research problem, method, evidence, and contribution easy to evaluate.

Core Rules

• Write from evidence: do not create results, citations, or claims that are not supported.
• Put the main point early in paragraphs and sections.
• Use concrete claims over vague importance statements.
• Keep contribution, method, and result claims distinct.
• Preserve the user's meaning when rewriting, but strengthen logic, flow, and academic tone.
• Mark missing citations or evidence explicitly.
• Check evidence-promotion-policy.md before moving CLM-* content into final prose; section IDs should use SEC-*.
• Before final polish, check section citation coverage and data-backed claim traceability when thesis console files exist.
• Before advisor-facing or final polish, use docs/thesis/nature-style-writing-checklist.md to check Introduction gap, related-work grouping, method reproducibility, results discipline, discussion boundaries, and overclaim risk.

Workflow

Read references/workflow.md for section templates, paragraph patterns, Nature-derived polishing checks, and revision checklists. Read references/source-map.md for source provenance.

1. Identify the target section, language, audience, and available evidence.
2. Determine the section's job in the paper.
3. Draft or rewrite with a clear claim-evidence structure.
4. Check each paragraph for topic sentence, evidence, transition, and overclaiming.
5. For citation-heavy sections, consult section-citation-map.md; for data-backed claims, consult data-availability.md; for final/advisor text, consult nature-style-writing-checklist.md.
6. For final polish, apply section-aware academic style checks: paper type, section job, reader question, tense, hedging, sentence length, citation integrity, and overclaim risk.
7. Return text plus unresolved evidence/citation gaps.

Output Contract

For drafting, include:

• revised or drafted section
• rationale for major structure choices
• missing citations or evidence
• optional shorter/stronger alternatives when useful
• final-polish notes when Nature-derived style checks are applied
• unresolved items from nature-style-writing-checklist.md when relevant

For thesis-wide writing, prefer this order unless the user provides a template:

1. method
2. experiments
3. result analysis
4. related work
5. introduction
6. abstract
7. conclusion

Do not overwrite a user's document unless they explicitly ask for file edits.