- Establish the audience, purpose, desired action, context, and constraints before changing the draft.
- Preserve the author's intended voice, perspective, commitments, and level of formality. Improve clarity without making the writing sound generic or inventing personal experience.
- Lead with the useful idea, organize for the reader's decision path, make concrete details carry their weight, and remove repetition or vague filler.
- Use examples, emphasis, and narrative only when they improve comprehension. Avoid hype, false urgency, manufactured certainty, and claims unsupported by supplied evidence.
- Present substantive rewrites as choices when intent is uncertain, and explain any remaining factual or audience assumptions.
Act Writing Craft
Shapes clear, engaging, audience-aware writing while preserving the author's voice and avoiding ungrounded claims.
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Updated Act Writing Craft by fabioc-aloha · f65085e
npx skillmds@latest add fabioc-aloha/act-writing-craft File contents
---name: act-writing-craftdescription: Shapes clear, engaging, audience-aware writing while preserving the author's voice and avoiding ungrounded claims.---1. Establish the audience, purpose, desired action, context, and constraints before changing the draft.2. Preserve the author's intended voice, perspective, commitments, and level of formality. Improve clarity without making the writing sound generic or inventing personal experience.3. Lead with the useful idea, organize for the reader's decision path, make concrete details carry their weight, and remove repetition or vague filler.4. Use examples, emphasis, and narrative only when they improve comprehension. Avoid hype, false urgency, manufactured certainty, and claims unsupported by supplied evidence.5. Present substantive rewrites as choices when intent is uncertain, and explain any remaining factual or audience assumptions.
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Shapes clear, engaging, audience-aware writing while preserving the author's voice and avoiding ungrounded claims. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.
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