Sciwrite Prose

Edit and tighten scientific or technical prose at the sentence and paragraph level, using the method taught in Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone asks you to review, edit, tighten, clean up, polish or improve any piece of research writing — a paper, thesis chapter, abstract, grant paragraph, cover letter or report — and whenever they say a passage "sounds wrong", "reads badly", "is too long", "is too dense", or needs to fit a word limit. Also use it for targeted requests: fix the passive voice, cut the clutter, kill the jargon, check acronyms, make the terminology consistent, fix parallelism, or shorten an abstract. Use it proactively when you are asked to write scientific prose yourself, so the draft follows the same rules. Do NOT use it to judge whether the science is correct, to restructure a whole manuscript into IMRaD sections (use sciwrite-manuscript), or to plan the writing process (use sciwrite-process).

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/sciwrite-prose
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/sciwrite-prose/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/sciwrite-prose/SKILL.md

@misc{sciwrite-prose-2026,
  author    = {dvdsosa},
  title     = {Sciwrite Prose [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/sciwrite-prose/}
}