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itcs-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising an ITCS paper's abstract, introduction, and technical presentation so the conceptual innovation lands before any theorem, the model is motivated as a lens rather than a tweak, scope and limitations are owned up front, and complete proofs are deferred cleanly — matching the ITCS emphasis on new ideas over technical depth.
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# ITCS Writing Style
At ITCS the reader must feel the **innovation before the theorem**. Reviewers are briefed to
reward a new model, question, or connection over a deeper result on an old one, so a paper that
opens like a STOC depth paper — leading with a bound and a technique — reads as if it mistook the
venue. The whole job of the first pages is to make a skeptical expert think *"I hadn't thought to
ask that, and I want to"* before they reach a single lemma. Because ITCS has **no rebuttal**
(see [`itcs-review-process`](../itcs-review-process/SKILL.md)), the writing must also *pre-empt*
objections there is no later chance to answer.
## The ITCS first-page arc
Structure the abstract and introduction as:
