academic-writing-refiner

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name: academic-writing-refiner
description: Refine academic writing for computer science research papers targeting top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, WWW, KDD, SIGIR, CIKM, and similar). Use this skill whenever a user asks to improve, polish, refine, edit, or proofread academic or research writing — including paper drafts, abstracts, introductions, related work sections, methodology descriptions, experiment write-ups, or conclusion sections. Also trigger when users paste LaTeX content and ask for writing help, mention "camera-ready", "rebuttal", "paper revision", or reference any academic venue or conference. This skill handles both full paper refinement and section-by-section editing.
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# Academic Writing Refiner

This skill transforms rough or intermediate academic drafts into polished, publication-ready prose for top-tier CS conferences. The goal is writing that is clear, precise, and accessible to a broad technical audience — the kind of writing that reviewers at venues like NeurIPS, ICML, or ACL appreciate because it respects their time and communicates ideas efficiently.

## Core Philosophy

Top CS conferences share a common expectation: writing should be a transparent window into the ideas, not a display of vocabulary. The best papers at NeurIPS, ACL, or KDD succeed not because they use impressive words, but because every sentence earns its place and every paragraph advances the reader's understanding.

This means:
- **Clarity over cleverness**: Use the simplest word that precisely conveys the meaning. "Use" instead of "utilize", "show" instead of "demonstrate" (unless you mean a formal proof/demonstration), "many" instead of "a plethora of".
- **Precision over vagueness**: Replace hedging language with specific claims. Instead of "our method performs quite well", say "our method achieves 94.3% accuracy, outperforming the strongest baseline by 2.1 points".
- **Economy over verbosity**: Every sentence should do w