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colm-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising COLM paper prose — leading with a finding about language models rather than a leaderboard delta, scoping claims to tested models and scales, naming versions in text, keeping the 9-page main text self-sufficient, and matching the measured, analysis-forward voice of COLM's award lineage.
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# COLM Writing Style
COLM prose has a recognizable register, visible in the venue's Outstanding Papers:
it reads like measurement, not marketing. The model under study is named precisely,
the claim is scoped to what was tested, and the interesting sentence is about *what
was learned*, not *who is winning*. Edit toward that register.
## Lead with the finding, not the delta
The weakest COLM opening is "LLMs have shown impressive capabilities, but..." — a
frame that positions the paper as a reaction to hype. The strongest openings state
the phenomenon or question directly:
- *Delta-first (avoid):* "We improve long-context QA by 4.2 points over strong