research-paper-writing

Research Paper Writing

Scope

Use this skill for writing or revising an empirical research manuscript after there is enough experimental evidence to support its method and result claims. For a survey, review, tutorial, taxonomy, or literature-synthesis paper, use survey-paper-writing; do not apply this Skill's baseline, seed, proposed-model, or ablation gate to literature synthesis. For a hybrid survey with an original benchmark, apply this Skill only to benchmark-derived claims.

This skill is not responsible for exploratory experiments or PDF conversion. Use research-project-workflow to orchestrate the full paper project. Use experiment for experiment setup, baselines, model trials, dataset expansion, and experiment-record management. Use paper-search for paper discovery. Use arxiv for arXiv metadata, BibTeX, and citation checks. Use pdf-to-markdown to convert public or user-provided PDFs before reading them deeply.

Load The Relevant Writing Instructions

Read these files from this Skill's resolved directory at the indicated step. Their contents are not automatically loaded with this Skill:

Task	Required reference
Draft or substantially rewrite scholarly prose	references/writing-guide.md before organizing the argument
Add, replace, or verify citations	references/citation-workflow.md before choosing sources
Finalize a draft or address review findings	references/manuscript-revision-audit.md before checking and revising

Use references/reviewer-guidelines.md for deeper author self-critique and references/checklists.md for a supplied venue. Verify current venue rules; historical examples do not impose a universal page count or review score.

Non-Negotiable Rule

Do not start writing the manuscript body just because a few small or incomplete experiments exist.

Even when evidence is sufficient, never start drafting the full paper without explicit user consent. Only write the manuscript when the user explicitly says to draft, write, compose, or complete the paper. An initial end-to-end request to complete a paper carries that authority through accepted stages; do not ask again. Without such a directive, produce readiness reports and gap analyses instead.