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Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — a design-forward, economically literate style that states the question, setting, and identification early and reads like recent empirical-archival accounting papers. Polishes prose and house style; it does not build the contribution (jar-contribution-framing) or format exhibits (jar-tables-figures).

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# Writing Style (jar-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The intro buries the question, setting, and identification under literature review
- The prose is vague about what was done empirically ("we examine the relationship…")
- A referee says the paper is hard to follow or the design is unclear
- You need the citation/reference formatting to match JAR house style

## Write like an empirical-archival accounting paper

JAR readers are accounting economists who want the **research design up front**. A strong JAR introduction, within its first page or two, states: the **question**, the **setting and source of identifying variation**, the **main finding with its sign and economic magnitude**, and the **contribution**. Do not make the reader wait until page eight to learn what you did. The voice is precise and economically literate — name the friction, the agents, and the identification, and prefer concrete statements ("a 2014 rule change that staggered adoption across states") over abstractions ("we leverage exogenous variation").

## Structure and signposting
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