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latex-paper-writing-en

用 LaTeX 撰写并润色科学论文（英文）。当用户需要起草、重写或改进论文各部分（IMRAD 结构）、强化学术语气、正确添加引用与参考文献，或构建论文大纲时，可使用此技能。

SKILL.md
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name: latex-paper-writing-en
description: Write and refine scientific papers in LaTeX (English). Use this when asked to draft, rewrite, or improve paper sections (IMRAD), strengthen academic tone, add citations/refs correctly, or build an outline.
license: Complete terms in LICENSE.txt

LaTeX Paper Writing (EN)

Scope

Use this skill to write or revise scientific paper content in English, directly in LaTeX.

Repo context: This workspace has paper.tex and references.bib at the root for English paper drafting. Use python tools/check_cites.py to verify citation hygiene (compares cited keys vs .bib entries).

Non-goals:

  • •Do not change technical claims without evidence.
  • •Do not add citations you cannot justify; prefer asking for sources or marking TODOs.
  • •Do not over-rewrite: preserve the author's voice and intent.

Default Working Mode (recommended)

  1. •Clarify the target: venue style (IEEE/ACM/Elsevier), section(s), word/page constraints.
  2. •Outline-first: propose bullet outline before writing full prose when structure is unclear.
  3. •Evidence-first: every nontrivial claim should have a citation, data, or qualification.
  4. •LaTeX-native: write as valid LaTeX, using semantic commands (\\section, \\subsection, \\label, \\ref, \\cite).

IMRAD Writing Heuristics

Introduction (pattern)

  • •Context: what area + why it matters.
  • •Problem: what concrete limitation exists.
  • •Gap: what prior work misses (cite).
  • •Objective: what this paper does.
  • •Contributions: 2–4 bullet contributions.
  • •Paper organization: brief roadmap.

Related Work

  • •Group by approach/theme (not by author).
  • •For each group: what it solves, what it assumes, and limitations.
  • •End with a positioning paragraph: what you do differently.

Methodology

  • •Write for reproducibility.
  • •Include: data (source/splits), model/architecture, training details, baselines, evaluation metrics.
  • •Explicitly state assumptions and limitations.

Results

  • •Report numbers with context (dataset, metric, split, N).
  • •Prefer tables/figures; reference them in text.
  • •Avoid “promising” language; be precise.

Discussion

  • •Interpret results: why it worked/failed.
  • •Compare to baselines and related work.
  • •Discuss threats to validity.

Conclusion

  • •Summarize contributions and key results.
  • •State limitations.
  • •Propose realistic future work.

Citation & Cross-Reference Rules

  • •Place citations immediately after the claim: ... improves generalization \\cite{key}.
  • •For multiple sources: \\cite{key1,key2} (or project-specific citation commands).
  • •Always \\label{sec:...} sections you may reference later; reference with \\ref{sec:...}.

LaTeX Style Checklist

  • •Consistent terminology (same term for same concept).
  • •Acronyms: define on first use, then use acronym consistently.
  • •Use proper LaTeX quotes: ``like this''.
  • •Prefer booktabs in tables (\\toprule, \\midrule, \\bottomrule) when available.

Quality Checklist

  • •Objective and contributions are explicit.
  • •Claims are either cited, measured, or qualified.
  • •Method is reproducible.
  • •Results support conclusions.
  • •LaTeX compiles without errors.

Citation Hygiene (repo-specific)

After writing/editing, run citation check:

bash
python tools/check_cites.py

This reports:

  • •Missing .bib entries for cited keys.
  • •Unused .bib entries (optional cleanup).

If PDFs are in papers/, extract abstracts with:

bash
python tools/extract_papers.py
python tools/review_papers.py

Prompt Patterns (examples)

  • •"Draft the Introduction in LaTeX (EN) using IMRAD. Include contributions bullets and cite placeholders where needed."
  • •"Rewrite this paragraph to be more academic and precise, preserving meaning."
  • •"Turn these bullet notes into a Methods section; keep it reproducible and cite where appropriate."
  • •"Check citation hygiene and add missing bib entries."