From communication-research-skills
Positions a Communication Research manuscript against the empirical literature, framing hypotheses as cumulative, theory-testing contributions. Useful when drafting introductions or responding to reviewer feedback.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/communication-research-skills:commres-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
CR is a **cumulative, social-scientific** journal: reviewers ask how your hypotheses extend, qualify,
CR is a cumulative, social-scientific journal: reviewers ask how your hypotheses extend, qualify, or adjudicate the prior empirical communication literature. Positioning is not throat-clearing — it places the paper where a quantitative communication scientist can see the open question, the rival accounts, and the move your tests make.
| If your paper is… | also engage… |
|---|---|
| a media-effects experiment | the general processing/persuasion theory it tests, not one stimulus literature |
| a survey of new-media use | the use→effect process literature, not just platform descriptions |
| a content analysis | the substantive effects/processing literature the coded features speak to |
| a health/political communication study | the message/audience mechanism literature beyond one topic |
commres-submission)Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the communication process, the measured constructs, the study design, and the inferential claim; then judge whether the manuscript answers CR's real reader: a quantitatively trained communication scientist who weighs theory, measurement validity, identification, and effect interpretation.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows so the next agent
edits rather than rediscovers the issue.resources/official-source-map.md
has been checked and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Debate】the live empirical disagreement / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 prior tests that define it
【Gap】what is contested / mismeasured / confounded / untested
【Hypotheses】how H1…Hk follow from the positioned theory
【Strongest rival】the account the design will adjudicate
【Next】commres-theory-building
../../resources/external_tools.md — measurement and effects literatures by area../../resources/official-source-map.md — CR scope and double-anonymized / third-person self-citation rulesnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin communication-research-skillsPositions a Journal of Communication manuscript against the literature to read as a field-wide contribution. Engages cross-subfield debates and avoids narrow platform focus.
Positions Organization Science manuscripts by joining conversations, problematizing assumptions, and integrating across disciplines (org theory, strategy, sociology, economics, psychology).
Positions a JCR manuscript by joining a live consumer-research conversation, problematizing assumptions rather than gap-spotting, and distinguishing the paper from JCP, JMR, JM, and disciplinary psychology/sociology outlets.