academic-research-writer

Academic Research Writer is a scholarly writing skill for producing rigorous academic documents — research papers, literature reviews, technical reports, theses, dissertations, conference papers, and proposals — with verified peer-reviewed sources and IEEE-format citations. It addresses the common problems of unsupported claims, weak sourcing, and inconsistent citation formatting by enforcing academic rigor, source verification, proper citation, and research integrity throughout a structured workflow.

The skill walks through understanding requirements, research planning, source discovery and verification, document structuring, and writing. It directs the agent to use web search across academic databases (Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, PubMed, ACM Digital Library, arXiv, ScienceDirect) and applies a verification checklist covering peer-review status, author credentials, venue reputation, citation count, methodology, and relevance, plus explicit red flags for predatory journals. It provides standard document skeletons for papers and literature reviews, discipline-specific tone and voice conventions (STEM, social sciences, humanities, engineering), guidance on argumentation and logical-fallacy avoidance, and integrated citation practices. Supporting files include reference guides on academic writing conventions, source verification, and IEEE citation, a research paper template, a user guide, and an ieee_formatter.py script for reference formatting.

Target users are students, researchers, and technical writers who need scholarly output that meets institutional or venue standards. The skill is a documentation and writing aid: it reads and reasons about sources and formats citations, and its research step depends on web search access to reach the cited academic databases.