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phg-writing-style
Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords. Polishes prose and format; it does not build the argument.
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# Writing Style (phg-writing-style)
A PiHG essay should read as an **authoritative, argument-led intervention** by someone who commands a
field — not as a neutral survey and not as an empirical report. This skill sets the voice, enforces the
journal's format constraints, and catches the stylistic tells that mark a piece as annotated bibliography
or misfit empirical study. Apply it after the argument is built, as a polish pass.
## When to trigger
- The argument is settled and you are drafting/revising prose
- Fitting an over-length essay into the short inclusive cap
- Writing the abstract, keywords, and introduction to lead with the contribution
- A reviewer said the prose "buries the argument" or "reads like a summary"
