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Use when researchers need a Nature-inspired, context-first workflow to polish academic paragraphs, abstracts, reviewer responses, peer-review comments, or ed... Skill: Academic Writing Polisher Owner: figpad Summary: Use when researchers need a Nature-inspired, context-first workflow to polish academic paragraphs, abstracts, reviewer responses, peer-review comments, or ed... Tags: academic-writing:1.0.1, latest:1.0.1, nature-inspired:1.0.1, paper-polishing:1.0.1, peer-review:1.0.1, research-writing:1.0.1 Version history: v1.0.1 | 2026-06-09T07:03:51.494Z | user Add ClawHub i

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SKILL.md

---
name: academic-writing-polisher
description: Use when researchers need a Nature-inspired, context-first workflow to polish academic paragraphs, abstracts, reviewer responses, peer-review comments, or editorial feedback. Revises for clarity, coherence, concision, and journal-ready tone while preserving author intent, avoiding invented claims or citations, and flagging ambiguity or meaning risks.
version: 1.0.0
metadata:
  openclaw:
    emoji: "✍️"
    homepage: https://github.com/Figpad/academic-writing-polisher
---

# Academic Writing Polisher

Use this skill to polish academic writing responsibly. The goal is not to write the paper for the user. The goal is to help the user express their own research meaning more clearly, coherently, concisely, and professionally.

This workflow is inspired by context-first academic writing practices discussed in Dritjon Gruda's Nature Career Column, "Three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing" (2024), DOI: `10.1038/d41586-024-01042-3`.

## When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

- Polish, revise, or improve academic writing.
- Improve clarity, coherence, concision, flow, or journal-ready tone.
- Rewrite an abstract, paragraph, introduction, discussion, limitation, or conclusion.
- Draft or refine responses to reviewers.
- Organize peer-review comments or editorial feedback.
- Improve academic English while preserving the user's meaning.

Do not use this skill for literature review, citation discovery, data analysis, journal selection, or generating new scientific claims unless the user separately asks for that workflow.

## Core Rule

Never silently add intellectual content. Do not invent claims, mechanisms, citations, results, limitations, methods, implications, or author intent.

If meaning is unclear, flag the ambiguity and offer a conservative revision.

## Context First

Before revising, collect missing context when it materially affects the edit. Ask only the questions needed for the current passage.

Useful context:

- Field or discipline.
- Document type: paper, thesis, abstract, rebuttal, review, editorial letter.
- Target audience or journal level.
- Section role: introduction, method, results, discussion, limitation, response to reviewer.
- Intended meaning in plain language.
- Desired edit strength: light polish, moderate rewrite, heavy restructure.
- Tone: concise, formal, direct, diplomatic, assertive, cautious.
- Terms, phrases, citations, or claims that must stay unchanged.

If the user already supplied enough context, proceed without asking.

## Revision Modes

Choose the smallest mode that solves the task:

- `Light polish`: grammar, word choice, flow, and academic tone.
- `Clarity rewrite`: restructures sentences to make the intended meaning easier to follow.
- `Concision`: removes repetition, filler, and unnecessary hedging.
- `Coherence`: improves paragraph order, transitions, and logical flow.
- `Reviewer response`: makes responses specific, respectful, and action-o

README.md

# Academic Writing Polisher

A context-first academic writing Skill for researchers who need clearer, more coherent, journal-ready text without losing author intent.

Inspired by Dritjon Gruda's Nature Career Column, "Three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing," this Skill turns responsible academic revision into an installable Agent workflow: ask for context first, revise second, and always flag meaning risks.

## What It Helps With

- Polish research paragraphs for clarity, coherence, concision, and academic tone.
- Improve abstracts, introductions, discussions, limitations, and conclusions.
- Refine reviewer responses without sounding defensive or vague.
- Organize peer-review comments and editorial feedback.
- Preserve the author's intended meaning while avoiding invented claims or citations.

## Why This Skill Exists

Generic AI polishing often changes too much: it can add unsupported claims, overstate findings, flatten disciplinary nuance, or silently change what the author meant.

This Skill gives the Agent a stricter academic writing workflow:

1. Collect the research context.
2. Revise only for the requested purpose.
3. Preserve citations, claims, and technical terms.
4. Explain what changed.
5. Flag ambiguity, overstatement, or meaning risks.

## Install

Install from ClawHub:

```bash
clawhub install academic-writing-polisher
```

If you use OpenClaw:

```bash
openclaw skills install academic-writing-polisher
```

ClawHub page: [academic-writing-polisher](https://clawhub.ai/skills/academic-writing-polisher)

If installing from this repository manually, copy the Skill folder into your local skills directory:

```bash
cp -R academic-writing-polisher ~/.codex/skills/
```

## Example Prompts

```text
Polish this paragraph for clarity and journal-ready academic tone. Preserve all claims and citations.
```

```text
I am writing a discussion section for a biomedical paper. I want this paragraph to sound more concise and coherent without overstating the findings.
```

```text
Revise this response to Reviewer 2. Keep it respectful, specific, and clear about what we changed.
```

## Output Shape

The Skill normally returns:

- Polished Version
- What Changed
- Meaning Check
- Risk Flags

This makes the revision auditable instead of a black-box rewrite.

## Search Keywords

academic writing, research writing, paper polishing, Nature-inspired, ChatGPT academic writing, reviewer response, peer review, editorial feedback, journal-ready tone, clarity, coherence, concision, author intent

## Source Inspiration

Gruda, D. (2024). "Three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing." Nature. DOI: [10.1038/d41586-024-01042-3](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01042-3)

This Skill is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nature, Springer Nature, or the article author.

## By Figpad

Created by [Figpad](https://github.com/Figpad), makers of [Figpad AI](https://figpad.ai), an AI-powered scientific illustration platform for researchers.

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references/examples.md

# Examples

## Paragraph Polish

User context:

```text
Field: biomedical research
Section: discussion
Intent: The treatment may improve outcomes, but our data are observational, so we should avoid causal language.
Edit strength: moderate rewrite
```

Draft:

```text
These results prove that the treatment improves patient survival and should be used broadly in clinical settings.
```

Better revision:

```text
These findings suggest that the treatment is associated with improved patient survival, although the observational design prevents causal interpretation. Further prospective studies are needed before broad clinical adoption can be recommended.
```

Meaning risk:

```text
The original "prove" was too strong for observational data. The revision keeps the positive association but lowers the certainty.
```

## Reviewer Response

Reviewer comment:

```text
The authors should clarify how missing values were handled.
```

User notes:

```text
We added a sentence to Methods, page 6, lines 120-123. We used multiple imputation with 20 datasets.
```

Response:

```text
Thank you for this helpful suggestion. We have clarified the handling of missing values in the Methods section (page 6, lines 120-123). Specifically, we now state that missing covariate values were handled using multiple imputation with 20 imputed datasets.
```

## Launch Copy

Short social post:

```text
I turned a context-first academic writing workflow into an installable Agent Skill.

It helps researchers polish paragraphs, abstracts, and reviewer responses without inventing claims or silently changing the author's meaning.

The Agent asks for context first, revises second, and always outputs a meaning-risk check.
```

GitHub repository description:

```text
Nature-inspired academic writing Skill for polishing research paragraphs, abstracts, reviewer responses, and peer-review feedback while preserving author intent.
```

references/prompt-patterns.md

# Prompt Patterns

Use these patterns when the user asks for reusable prompts or wants to adapt the workflow.

## Research Paragraph Polish

```text
I am writing a paper on [topic] for a [field] academic audience.
This paragraph appears in the [section].
My intended meaning is: [plain-language meaning].
Please revise the text for clarity, coherence, concision, and professional academic tone.
Preserve all claims, citations, technical terms, and uncertainty levels.
Do not add new claims or references.
Flag any sentence whose meaning is ambiguous.

Text:
[paste text]
```

## Abstract Polish

```text
I am revising an abstract for a [field] paper.
The study's core contribution is: [contribution].
The target tone is concise, concrete, and journal-ready.
Please improve flow and readability without changing the claims, results, methods, or implications.
Flag any sentence that sounds overstated or underspecified.

Abstract:
[paste abstract]
```

## Discussion Section

```text
I am revising the discussion section of a [field] paper.
The key finding is: [finding].
The evidence supports: [supported interpretation].
The evidence does not support: [boundary].
Please improve clarity and logical flow while keeping claims appropriately cautious.

Text:
[paste text]
```

## Reviewer Response

```text
I am responding to a reviewer comment.
Reviewer comment:
[paste comment]

What we changed:
[state actual change]

What we did not change, if relevant:
[state boundary]

Please draft a respectful, specific response.
Do not claim that we changed something unless it appears in my notes.
Separate the response to the reviewer from any suggested manuscript wording.
```

## Peer Review Notes

```text
I have read a manuscript and wrote the following review notes.
Please organize them into a concise, professional peer-review report.
First summarize the manuscript's core contribution, then list major concerns in order of importance, then minor comments.
Do not invent details beyond my notes.

Notes:
[paste notes]
```

## Editorial Feedback

```text
I am preparing editorial feedback based on my decision notes.
Please draft a direct, respectful, and actionable letter.
Make the key reason for the decision clear.
Avoid vague phrases and do not add criticisms that are not in my notes.

Decision notes:
[paste notes]
```

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