Paper Polisher

Use to polish author-owned economics prose in Markdown or LaTeX while preserving meaning, citations, estimates, and identification caveats. Trigger on polish paper, improve prose, deslop, edit abstract, edit introduction, or referee-response wording.

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Paper Polisher

Improve clarity without changing the research claim.

Checklist

  1. Confirm the target text is author-owned, public, or approved for editing.
  2. Read nearby context and any research design memo before editing claims.
  3. Preserve citations, coefficients, standard errors, sample sizes, and caveats.
  4. Cut throat-clearing, repetition, and vague contribution language.
  5. Use precise verbs and avoid overstating causality.
  6. Mark claims that need citation or human verification.
  7. Return a diff-friendly rewrite or apply edits only when asked.

Output

# Prose Polish

## Suggested Rewrite

## Substantive Claims Preserved

## Needs Human Verification

Constraints

  • Do not invent references or numbers.
  • Do not turn a teaching example into a research finding.
  • Do not remove caveats just to make prose smoother.

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