paper-readability-check

Review academic paper drafts against a 15-item readability checklist and produce before/after revision reports.

3|1|Updated Mar 7, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Plusero/agentic-research-skills --skill paper-readability-check-plusero
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Skill: paper-readability-check
Source: https://github.com/Plusero/agentic-research-skills/tree/main/resources/skills/paper-readability-check
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Plusero/agentic-research-skills --skill paper-readability-check-plusero

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Academic drafts often suffer from overloaded sentences, unclear references, poor information ordering, and redundancy that obscure otherwise sound research. This Skill applies a fixed sentence- and paragraph-level readability checklist to a draft and returns concrete rewrites with exact locations and checklist references, without altering technical claims. ## Core Features & Use Cases - 15-Item Readability Checklist: Detects issues such as duplicate content, excessive claims per sentence, long subject-verb distance, vague demonstratives, weak voice choice, and broken parallel structure. - Structured Revision Reports: Generates an HTML report with summary counts, side-by-side before/after text, highlighted differences using insertion/deletion markup, a notes table, and clean revised text; a compact Markdown format is available for inline checks. - Claim-Preserving Rewrites: Preserves technical claims, citations, units, terminology, and degree of certainty while improving readability. - Use Case: Paste a draft abstract or introduction section and receive a report listing each readability issue by paragraph and sentence, the violated checklist item, and one concrete rewrite per issue. ## Quick Start Check this manuscript section for readability issues and generate a before/after report with checklist references.

Frequently Asked Questions about paper-readability-check

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I check the readability of an academic paper draft?

Provide the draft text and the Skill evaluates it against 15 sentence- and paragraph-level criteria, including claims per sentence, information ordering, and redundancy. It returns each issue with its location, the violated checklist item, and one suggested rewrite.

What readability issues does the checklist detect in manuscripts?

The checklist covers duplicate content, overloaded sentences, claim placement, given-before-new ordering, subject-verb distance over 12 words, vague demonstratives, empty pronoun references, missing logical connectives, redundancy, voice choice, parallel structure, and repeated sentence patterns.

Does readability checking change my technical claims or citations?

No. The Skill explicitly preserves claims, mathematical relations, units, citations, terminology, and degree of certainty. It only restructures wording and ordering, and it never invents issues when no checklist condition is met.

What output formats does the readability report support?

By default it creates an HTML report with summary counts, side-by-side before/after panels, highlighted differences using del/ins markup, a notes table, and clean revised text. A compact Markdown format is available for inline checks.

When should I use a readability checklist instead of a grammar checker?

Use the readability checklist when sentences are grammatically correct but hard to follow due to structure, ordering, or reference ambiguity. It deliberately excludes pure grammar issues unless the passage also violates one of the 15 readability items.