Claude Skills for Academic Writing
Claude skills for researchers, grad students and academics writing papers.
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Get 3 Claude skills in a zip file. Upload each folder as its own skill in Claude.
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Academic writing has tight conventions, high precision requirements, and more scrutiny than most prose. This pack helps Claude draft sections, structure literature reviews, and reason about citations — without hallucinating references.
What you can do with this pack
- Draft the introduction or discussion of a paper
- Structure a literature review
- Rewrite verbose academic prose for clarity
- Generate outlines for a research paper
- Reason about what a paper is actually claiming
Skills in this pack
Paper Section Drafter
Draft sections of an academic paper — intro, methods, results, discussion — in the field's conventions. Trigger on 'draft the intro', 'write the methods section', 'draft my paper', 'academic draft', or when the user is drafting sections of a research paper.
Literature Review Structurer
Structure a literature review by theme and argument, not chronology. Trigger on 'literature review', 'lit review', 'review the literature', 'related work section', or when the user is building a literature review section.
Academic Prose Clarifier
Rewrite verbose academic prose for clarity without losing precision. Trigger on 'simplify this academic writing', 'clarify this paper', 'academic editing', 'too dense', or when the user has academic prose that is hard to read.
How to install the skills
- In Claude, turn on code execution under Settings → Capabilities.
- Download and unzip the pack above — you'll see one folder per skill.
- Go to Customize → Skills, click + Create skill, then Upload a skill.
- Zip each individual skill folder and upload it.
- Toggle the skill on. Claude will use it automatically when your request matches.
Full instructions: /download/claude-skills
FAQ
What is a Claude skill?
A Claude skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file. It tells Claude when to trigger the skill and how to execute the task. Skills live inside your Claude account once uploaded.
Do these work on Free, Pro and Max plans?
Yes, as long as code execution is enabled. On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin needs to enable skills at the organisation level first.
Can I edit the skills?
Yes — the skills are plain markdown files. Open SKILL.md in any editor and change the description, steps, templates, or output format to match how you work.
Do I need all the skills in the pack?
No. Upload only the ones you'll use. Too many active skills makes Claude less precise about which one to pick.