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jel-writing-style
Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (jel-organizing-framework) or assign codes (jel-classification-system).
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# JEL Writing Style — the Survey Voice (jel-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The framework and coverage are settled and it is time to make the survey *read* well
- A non-specialist economist would get lost or bored in the current draft
- The opening buries the field's importance under machinery or throat-clearing
- The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a survey abstract
## The JEL voice: authoritative + accessible + long-form
A JEL survey is read by **non-specialist economists** — smart, but not in this subfield. The voice is that of a trusted, fair expert teaching the field to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it:
1. **Authoritative.** Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants the author's *appraisal*, not neutrality-as-evasion. But authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted.