mikubaka88/ccfa-skills

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“The structure of the prose becomes the structure of the scientific argument.” George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan, The Science of Scientific Writing “The very process of science is centered around communication.” Yann LeCun and James M. Manyika, Learning Abstractions At 2 a.m., the experiment finally ended, and the new results exceeded expectations. But when the manuscript was reopened, the truly thorny problem emerged: the original clear and strong research question had been buried in lengthy related work, and the method description had deviated from the actual mechanism in the code; The newly added experiment responded to the previous round of review comments but split the argument into several distant threads. Each part seemed more complete, while the entire paper became harder to understand. Many promising studies ultimately fail to fully demonstrate their value, not because the idea is weak, but because it gradually loses its clear outline over long periods. As the literature accumulates and the experimental forms keep expanding, authors must repeatedly switch between research, writing, and review perspectives. An all-encompassing long prompt finds it difficult to do all these things simultaneously because retrievals must be faithful to sources, experiments must follow protocols, writing must revolve around argumentation, and peer review must maintain independent judgment. That's why we designed CCFA Skills. A paper isn't a document waiting to be filled out item by item, but rather a research storyline that needs to be maintained coherently through repeated revisions. Seventeen Clearly Divided Skills Start from ideas, literature, and experiments, helping arguments gradually take shape and running through writing, drawing, review, rebuttal, and submission. When tasks are handed from one skill to another, the connections between research questions, evidence, and conclusions are still preserved. - Evaluating an idea and developing an idea are two different tasks; Designing experiments and beautifying charts also require different judgments. CCFA Skills bring each step back to the question it truly aims to answer. - Literature, experimental protocols, numbers, conclusions, charts, and citations are not mixed together. Missing facts remain missing until they are reliably found or verified. - Humanization: removes defensive groundwork, mechanical enumerations, excessive dashes, and internal engineering wording, while retaining limitations, evidence, and disclosures that truly affect the conclusion. - Reviewers are responsible for judgment, Writers are responsible for revisions.

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