Research Paper Writing
Overview
Use this skill to rewrite a research paper into a reviewer-friendly, high-clarity draft. Prioritize first-impression quality (figures/tables/layout), logical flow, and evidence-backed claims.
Core Workflow
- Clarify the paper story before sentence-level edits.
- Use section-specific guidance in
references/. - Rewrite paragraph-by-paragraph with one message per paragraph.
- Run reverse outlining after writing each section.
- Check every major claim in Abstract/Introduction against experimental evidence.
- Run final-paper adversarial review with
references/paper-review.md.
Global Principles
- Keep one paragraph for one message only.
- State the paragraph message in the first sentence.
- Make nouns self-contained; define new terms before reusing them.
- Maintain sentence-to-sentence flow (cause, contrast, consequence, or refinement).
- Iterate with adversarial self-review: read as a skeptical reviewer.
- Treat visual quality as core content, not decoration.
- Use a clean teaser and pipeline figure.
- Use readable, minimal-ink tables.
- Keep formatting consistent and tidy.
Paragraph Clarity Check (Important)
Use this quick test whenever the user asks whether a paragraph "flows" or is clear.
- Read as an external reader:
- Does this paragraph have one explicit message? - Does the first sentence state what this paragraph will do? - Are all key nouns/terms readable without hidden context? - Does each sentence connect to the previous one with a clear relation (cause, contrast, consequence, refinement, example)?
- Run reverse outlining for the current section:
- Write down thesis/main claim. - Write down each paragraph topic sentence. - Write down the evidence/explanation points under each paragraph. - Check mapping: topic sentence -> thesis, and evidence -> topic sentence. - Revise or remove any paragraph that cannot be mapped cleanly.
- If flow is still weak, add temporary section headers and explicit transition phrases during revision, then remove unnecessary headers before finalizing.
Source reference for this check:
references/does-my-writing-flow-source.md
Section Guides
Load only the needed section file:
- Introduction:
references/introduction.md - Abstract:
references/abstract.md - Related Work:
references/related-work.md - Method:
references/method.md - Experiments:
references/experiments.md - Conclusion:
references/conclusion.md - Paper review (Paper Rview):
references/paper-review.md - Paragraph clarity source:
references/does-my-writing-flow-source.md - Example bank index:
references/examples/index.md
Paper Review Core Points
Use references/paper-review.md for the full checklist and workflow.
- Add an end-of-draft self-review question list in five dimensions:
- contribution, - writing clarity, - experimental strength, - evaluation completeness, - method design soundness.
- Treat claim-evidence alignment as a hard constraint, especially for Abstract and Introduction.
- Perform adversarial writing: review as a skeptical reviewer and resolve every high-risk question.
- Revise until major rejection risks are explicitly addressed.
Execution Rules
- Build a mini-outline before drafting prose.
- For each subsection, explicitly include motivation, design, and technical advantage when applicable.
- Avoid writing style that looks like incremental patching of a naive baseline.
- Keep terminology stable across the full paper.
- If a claim cannot be supported by results, weaken or remove the claim.
- Before finalizing, append and answer a five-dimension self-review question list, then revise the paper based on unresolved items.
- Do not load all section references (Introduction/Abstract/Related Work/Method/Experiments/Conclusion) at once; load only the specific section guide needed for the current edit target.
Output Contract
When asked to rewrite or draft sections, return:
- A compact section outline (3-7 bullets).
- Revised paragraphs with explicit paragraph roles (opening/challenge/method/advantage/evidence/limitation).
- A short self-review checklist covering clarity, flow, terminology consistency, unsupported claims, and missing evidence.
- A claim-evidence map for each major claim in the revised text using
Claim:... | Evidence:... | Status: supported/needs evidence.