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jaar-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article so it is clear, analytic, gender-neutral, and readable across the study of religion. Improves scholarly prose; it does not invent content. For reference formatting use jaar-citation-and-style.
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# Writing Style (jaar-writing-style)
A JAAR article should read as rigorous humanities scholarship that a religion scholar **outside** your
area can follow with pleasure. The prose must carry an argument (not just inform), define its terms,
and meet JAAR's house conventions (gender-neutral language, serial comma, italicized foreign terms).
## When to trigger
- Drafting the introduction/conclusion or doing a final prose pass
- The argument is strong but the writing is dense, jargon-heavy, or flat
- Aligning to JAAR's language conventions before submission
- Handling foreign-language terms, transliteration, and technical vocabulary
## Prose principles for JAAR