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restud-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — introduction, abstract, and overall economy of exposition — so the original contribution reads clearly and elegantly. Polishes writing; does not change results, design, or model.
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# REStud Writing Style (restud-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The introduction runs long and buries the contribution
- The abstract reads as motivation rather than result
- Prose is wordy; the reader cannot find the one clean point quickly
- The paper is technically done but reads as a working paper, not a REStud article
- A seminar comment was "I couldn't tell what the contribution was"
## REStud house style
REStud prizes a contribution "presented rigorously **and economically**," and it must read well to **both** a theorist and an applied economist — the journal's defining balance since its 1933 founding. The writing standard follows:
