Academic Paper Polishing & Grammar Correction

Problem

Paper text often mixes colloquial phrasing, weak logical connectors, and inconsistent Chinese-English academic style. A careless rewrite can introduce two risks: replacing stable terminology and quietly changing numbers or conclusions. This skill focuses on fidelity-preserving editing: it keeps model names, algorithm names, formula symbols, fixed translations, and citation markers unchanged, and treats language as the main target.

How it works

The edit priority is explicit:

• Terminology stays fixed: backpropagation, Transformer, [1], and similar items are not renamed.
• Semantics stay faithful: no new conclusion is added, and causal relations, values, and stance are preserved.
• Academic tone is tightened: colloquial phrases such as “then” or “in other words” are rewritten, but long nested clauses are avoided.
• Reviewable output: a table maps original / polished / change note, making edits easy to audit.

The workflow first identifies the paragraph goal and terminology list, then edits sentence by sentence, and finally returns a complete paragraph. For Chinese papers, it removes redundancy and fixes word order. For Chinese-to-English, it checks tense, subject-verb agreement, articles, and prepositions. For English-to-Chinese, it reduces translationese.

Boundaries

It is suitable for polishing Chinese papers, translating academic paragraphs between Chinese and English, and pre-submission grammar review. If the source logic is broken, information is missing, or a term translation is uncertain, the skill should flag it for confirmation instead of inventing content. It can also target IEEE, ACM, or Chinese CS journal style.