✍️ The writing guide

Written by the people who held this role. See also the latest handoffs.

Yours to write. Some questions to start from:

  • How do you find the part of a paper most worth fixing?
  • Which rules turned out to be general?

Additional resources

  • Writing tips: an ever-growing guide (see Title, Abstract, Review, Sentence)
  • paper-sharpener: Claude Code writing assistant built on that guide

Tasks in this role

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  • Rewrite the abstract (or title). Rewrite the abstract, or the title if that is what needs improving. Show before and after and say what you changed and why. Write
  • Copyedit a section. Copyedit the biggest part you can. Could the overall story improve? The structure? If not, what can be cut or phrased better? Give a before and after, and the general rule you applied. Write
  • The points that matter. What are the most important points for most readers, and how could the paper convey or emphasize them better? Write

Posts in this role 3

✍️ Writing Oct 21, 2026
Editing the methods of
sub-models are made of blocks
Matryoshka LM suites
✍️ Writing Oct 16, 2026
Three things to remember, and where the paper hides them
The points most readers should leave with, and how the paper could make them harder to miss.
Cross-lingual knowledge in pretraining
✍️ Writing Oct 16, 2026
Rewriting the abstract: lead with the surprise
The paper's most striking result is buried in sentence six. Here is a version that starts with it.
Cross-lingual knowledge in pretraining

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