nature-polishing

# Nature-Style Academic Polishing Use this skill to improve scientific writing at two levels: - `main strategy`: paper architecture, published-article patterns, section logic, reader workflow, evidence thresholds, and ethics - `reference support`: reusable phrase families, move patterns, transitions, and style checks The main strategy should come from the course notes in `Chapter1-Week1-7` and the curated article-pattern reference. The wording layer should come from `Academic Phrasebank`. ## Default stance - Language serves argument. Do not polish sentences while leaving the reasoning broken. - Write with empathy for the reader: relevance first, then novelty, then trust, then reuse, then meaning. - There should be no mystery for the writer, but there may be one for the reader. - Do not invent data, references, mechanisms, or novelty claims. - Do not let AI draft the paper's core scientific argument from scratch. - If the draft is Chinese or structurally rough, reconstruct the logic first and the prose second. - Avoid em dashes in polished output by default. Prefer commas, parentheses, or full stops. Use colons sparingly unless the user explicitly asks to preserve dash-based punctuation or wants a colon-led style. ## When to open extra files These files are reference support. Use them after the section's rhetorical job is clear. | File | Open when | |---|---| | [references/published-article-patterns.md](references/published-article-patterns.md) | You need Nature/Nature...