Use when drafting or polishing the prose of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — Chicago Manual of Style (author-date), the 11,000-word inclusive cap, the 3-5 italicized keywords, and writing that reads as geography for a broad disciplinary audience. Polishes prose and format; it does not generate findings.
SkillScore79Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 24 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 24 without it.
Without skill54%
With skill79%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Specifies the keyword count range as 3 to 5
States the maximum word cap is 11,000 words
States the total word limit cap is 11,000 words
and 6 more in the full report
6 fixed13 passed either way5 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+25 pp
Tokens
+40%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-22%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v119 of 24 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 6
Prompt
For an AAAG paper, I am preparing the abstract keywords block. Currently I have 6 capitalized terms listed in order of appearance in the text: 'Urban geography, GIS, Remote sensing, Spatial analysis, Climate adaptation, Policy'. How should these keywords be formatted and structured?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
States that the keyword count must be reduced to between 3 and 5 keywords
Missed
Passed
Requires the keywords to be alphabetized
Passed
Passed
Requires the keywords to be formatted in italics
Missed
Passed
case-05 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md84 linessingle file
Writing Style (aaag-writing-style)
The Annals reaches the whole discipline of geography across four areas. The prose must make a
specialist contribution legible to geographers outside the subfield, follow Chicago Manual of Style
(author-date), and fit a cap that counts almost everything (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
When to trigger
Drafting the introduction, framing the contribution, or final language polish
Cutting to the word cap, or fixing citation/keyword/format issues
A reviewer said the paper is "hard to follow," "jargon-heavy," or "reads as [another discipline]"
House style (verify on the Style Sheet)
Chicago Manual of Style, author-date citations and reference list.
Abstract followed by 3-5 keywords, alphabetized and italicized at the end of the abstract.
Word cap: ≤ 11,000 words for Articles, including abstract, references, notes, tables, and figure
captions — budget the whole document, not just the body. Forums and Commentaries differ (see
aaag-submission).
US/standard academic English; define area-specific jargon for a general-geography reader.
The introduction arc (make it read as geography)
Aim for: question → geographic stake (space/place/scale/environment-society) → why it is hard →
setting & design → headline finding with mechanism → portable contribution → brief roadmap. By the
end of the introduction a geographer in another area should know the question, the argument, the
evidence, and why it matters to geography broadly.
Lead with the geographic question and argument, not the method or the study area description.
State the contribution early and as a portable geographic claim (aaag-theory-building).
Name the place/scale as part of the argument, not as throat-clearing description.
Cross-area legibility
Translate sub-field jargon: a Physical-Geography reader should follow a Human-Geography paper's stakes and vice versa.
Keep methods proportionate — enough to judge rigor, not a tutorial that crowds out the argument.
Use signposting sparingly; let the argument, not a seven-section roadmap, carry the reader.