From current-anthropology-skills
Drafts and polishes manuscripts for Current Anthropology journal, ensuring cross-subfield readability, CA house style (Chicago author-date), word caps (6-10k major article, 3-5k report, ≤200 abstract), and jargon-light inclusive language.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/current-anthropology-skills:curranthro-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
A CA paper must be readable by an anthropologist outside its subfield and by CA's **worldwide audience**,
A CA paper must be readable by an anthropologist outside its subfield and by CA's worldwide audience, written with a clear argument and a reflexive voice, formatted to Chicago author-date in final files, and disciplined to the article type's word cap. Because a Major Article anchors the CA✩ Treatment, the prose must make the intervention unmissable — commentators and the editor should be able to state your claim in one sentence. CA explicitly discourages overuse of jargon and asks that main ideas be comprehensible to nonspecialists.
.doc/.rtf, not PDF); commonly 12-point, double-spaced;
endnotes (not embedded references). Figures supplied separately (see curranthro-tables-figures).curranthro-review-process / curranthro-submission).curranthro-literature-positioning).【Intervention stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Reads across subfields / comprehensible to nonspecialists?】jargon defined / acronyms spelled? [Y/N]
【Abstract】word count (≤ 200)
【Word count】Major Article 6,000–10,000 / Report 3,000–5,000 (incl. refs/notes)?
【Chicago author-date + alphabetized + DOIs (final files)】[Y/N]
【Care-ful, inclusive language】[Y/N]
【Next】curranthro-transparency-and-data
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