Paper Writing Section

lingzhi227/paper-writing-section

Write a specific section of an academic paper (Abstract, Introduction, Background, Related Work, Methods, Experiments, Results, Discussion/Conclusion) with section-specific guidance and two-pass refinement. Use when the user wants to write, draft, or improve a paper section.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

256

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill paper-writing-section

The instruction itself

10 sections, as written by the author

Paper Section Writer

Write a publication-quality section for an academic paper.

Input

$0 — Section name: abstract, introduction, background, related-work, methods, experimental-setup, results, discussion, conclusion
$1 — (Optional) Path to context file (research plan, results, prior sections)

Workflow

Step 1: Gather Context

Read the paper's existing .tex files, experiment logs, result files, and any provided context. Understand: title, contributions, methodology, key results, figures, tables.

Step 2: Write the Section

Load section-specific tips from references/section-tips.md. Before every paragraph, include a brief plan as a LaTeX comment (% Plan: ...).

Apply both refinement passes from references/refinement-prompts.md:

Pass 1: Fix errors (unenclosed math, broken refs, hallucinated numbers, duplicate labels)
Pass 2: Remove redundancies, compress, ensure smooth transitions

References

Section writing tips: ~/.claude/skills/paper-writing-section/references/section-tips.md
Refinement prompts and error checklist: ~/.claude/skills/paper-writing-section/references/refinement-prompts.md

Output

LaTeX fragment (no \documentclass, no preamble). All math enclosed in $...$ or \begin{equation}, all figures referenced with \ref{}, all cited works use \cite{}, no placeholder text.

Quality Checklist

All math enclosed properly
All \ref{} and \cite{} valid
No TODO/TBD/FIXME markers
Numbers match experimental logs exactly
Writing style is objective — no hype words
Section length appropriate for venue

Upstream: data-analysis, figure-generation, table-generation, related-work-writing
Downstream: latex-formatting, citation-management
See also: paper-assembly

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take lingzhi227/paper-writing-section from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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