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Use when polishing the prose of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — sustained argumentative writing that carries theory and evidence together, a self-contained abstract, disciplined length despite the absence of a hard cap, and full anonymization for double-anonymized review. Polishes prose; it does not run the submission preflight (aos-submission).

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# Writing Style (aos-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The draft reads as description (field papers) or as a mechanical hypothesis mill (experiments)
- Sections don't argue — the theory, findings, and discussion sit side by side unconnected
- The abstract summarizes the topic instead of the claim
- Anonymization, references, or length discipline still need a pass

## The AOS register

AOS prose is **essayistic but accountable**: long-form argument in which every interpretive move is anchored to evidence and every theoretical term earns its keep. The reader is interdisciplinary — an organizational sociologist and a JDM psychologist may both referee — so write for the intelligent non-specialist: define tradition-specific vocabulary at first use, and never let jargon substitute for reasoning.

- **Argue continuously.** Each section should advance the claim, not inventory content. Findings sections in field papers interleave excerpt and interpretation — the analysis is *in* the prose, not after it.
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