writing-enhancement
Improve writing quality, fix errors, and transform style. Use when asked to proofread, edit, improve clarity, fix grammar/typos, enhance academic writing, analyze prose quality, humanize technical content, or write essays. Triggers include "improve this writing", "fix typos", "proofread", "make this clearer", "academic style", "humanize", "write an essay", "analyze my writing".
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Writing Enhancement skill is a comprehensive toolkit designed to elevate the quality of written content through advanced proofreading, stylistic transformation, and structural optimization. It enables users to fix grammatical errors, enhance clarity, and adapt prose for specific contexts—ranging from rigorous academic standards to conversational 'humanized' technical content—ensuring professional and impactful communication.
Use Cases
- Academic Polishing: Refining research papers with scholarly tone, proper citations, and LaTeX formatting for formal publication.
- Professional Proofreading: Identifying and correcting typos, punctuation, and grammatical inconsistencies in business reports and emails.
- Style Adaptation: Transforming complex technical jargon into approachable, conversational language or mimicking specific authorial styles like Paul Graham for essays.
- Prose Analysis: Evaluating writing quality using clarity principles (such as Steven Pinker's) to provide actionable feedback on flow and readability.
- Content Optimization: Cleaning up text formatting and normalizing punctuation to ensure a polished final draft.
| name | writing-enhancement |
|---|---|
| description | Improve writing quality, fix errors, and transform style. Use when asked to proofread, edit, improve clarity, fix grammar/typos, enhance academic writing, analyze prose quality, humanize technical content, or write essays. Triggers include "improve this writing", "fix typos", "proofread", "make this clearer", "academic style", "humanize", "write an essay", "analyze my writing". |
Writing Enhancement
Transform and improve written content for clarity, style, and correctness.
Pattern Selection
| Intent | Pattern | When to Use |
|---|---|---|
| General improvement | improve_writing |
Enhance clarity, flow, style |
| Academic writing | improve_academic_writing |
Scholarly tone, citations, structure |
| Fix errors | fix_typos |
Spelling, grammar, punctuation |
| Clean formatting | clean_text |
Fix breaks, normalize punctuation |
| Analyze quality | analyze_prose |
Rate novelty, clarity, style |
| Pinker analysis | analyze_prose_pinker |
Steven Pinker's clarity principles |
| Make approachable | humanize |
Technical → conversational |
| Essay (styled) | write_essay |
Essays in specific author styles |
| Essay (PG style) | write_essay_pg |
Paul Graham essay style |
| Micro essay | write_micro_essay |
Concise single-idea essays |
| Academic paper | create_academic_paper |
Full LaTeX academic papers |
| LaTeX output | write_latex |
LaTeX document formatting |
Decision Flow
User request
│
├─ "fix/correct/proofread" ──→ fix_typos
├─ "improve/enhance/better" ─┬─ academic context? ──→ improve_academic_writing
│ └─ general ──→ improve_writing
├─ "analyze/rate/evaluate" ──→ analyze_prose (or analyze_prose_pinker)
├─ "humanize/simplify" ──→ humanize
├─ "write essay" ─┬─ specific author? ──→ write_essay
│ ├─ Paul Graham? ──→ write_essay_pg
│ └─ short/micro? ──→ write_micro_essay
└─ "academic paper/LaTeX" ──→ create_academic_paper or write_latex
Pattern References
See references/ for full patterns:
- improve_writing.md
- improve_academic_writing.md
- fix_typos.md
- analyze_prose.md
- humanize.md
- write_essay.md
Output Guidelines
- Preserve the author's voice unless asked to change it
- For corrections: show changes or provide clean version based on preference
- For analysis: provide actionable feedback, not just ratings
- Match formality level to context (academic vs. blog vs. email)
Chaining Suggestions
- After
analyze_prose→ offerimprove_writingto address issues - After
improve_writing→ offerfix_typosfor final polish - After
humanize→ offeranalyze_proseto verify accessibility