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nature-polishing skill

An academic-writing skill for polishing, restructuring, and translating manuscript prose into concise Nature-leaning English.

Source hierarchy:

• Main strategy: the course notes in Chapter1-Week1-7 full version.pdf
• Published article patterns: curated Nature and Nature Communications examples
• Reference support: Academic-Phrasebank-Navigable-PDF-2023.pdf

What changed

• The main SKILL.md now follows the first PDF's architecture: paper type, reader workflow, hourglass structure, writing order, section responsibilities, intellectual debt, and AI/ethics boundaries.
• Article-level polishing can now use the published-paper pattern reference for abstracts, introductions, Results, Discussions, conclusions, and titles.
• The reference folder now serves a narrower role: phrase families, move templates, and style checks derived from the second PDF.
• The skill now distinguishes research papers from methods papers.
• The skill treats core argument ownership as a central rule, not a side note.

File structure

nature-polishing/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
└── references/
    ├── published-article-patterns.md
    ├── phrasebank-playbook.md
    ├── section-moves.md
    ├── style-guardrails.md
    └── writing-strategy.md

When to use

• polishing an abstract, introduction, results, discussion, conclusion, or title
• polishing a methods section or a methods paper with fair-comparison logic
• translating Chinese academic text into publishable English
• tightening section logic before submission
• softening overclaims and fixing evidence-weighted language
• making prose read more like strong journal English without inventing content

Design intent

The skill should:

• preserve facts, citation intent, and author responsibility
• make the first PDF the governing writing strategy
• improve rhetorical sequencing at paragraph level
• keep sentences short and readable
• use the second PDF only as the phrase and reference layer
• avoid generic AI prose and unsupported claims

Reference map

• section-moves.md: section order and move patterns
• published-article-patterns.md: writing patterns from curated Nature and Nature Communications articles
• phrasebank-playbook.md: hedging, transitions, evidence, limitations, future work
• style-guardrails.md: British style, articles, abbreviations, units, register, overclaim control
• writing-strategy.md: paragraph- and section-level argument logic

Notes

• The skill is designed for polishing and restructuring, not for fabricating scientific content.
• The main strategic rules live in SKILL.md; the reference files should not overrule them.
• The reference files are intentionally selective. They are meant to guide choices, not to encourage boilerplate copying.