Scientific Style Polisher

Purpose

Improve clarity, flow, concision, and academic tone without altering the underlying science. This skill is for language refinement, not content invention.

Typical Inputs

• Manuscript titles, abstracts, introductions, results, discussions, limitations, or figure legends.
• Cover letters and short journal-facing summaries.
• Chinese or English scientific prose that needs a more natural academic style.

Core Rules

• Preserve all numbers, statistics, references, figure/table references, gene names, drug names, database names, and technical abbreviations.
• Do not fabricate citations, data, methods, experiments, results, limitations, or clinical implications.
• Do not convert association, enrichment, or correlation into causation.
• Do not hide methodological weaknesses with polished language.
• Keep the author's intended meaning and evidence strength.
• Recommend final human review before submission.

Workflow

1. Identify the manuscript section and target audience.
2. Detect whether the text needs light grammar cleanup, substantial style polishing, or claim-safety editing.
3. Preserve all technical tokens before rewriting.
4. Improve sentence structure, transitions, terminology consistency, and redundancy.
5. Replace generic AI-like phrasing with specific scientific wording.
6. Add a short risk note if the original text contains overclaims or unsupported statements.

Preferred Language

Use cautious, defensible phrasing:

• "These findings support..."
• "This pattern is consistent with..."
• "The analysis suggests..."
• "A possible explanation is..."

Avoid unsupported certainty:

• "proves"
• "guarantees"
• "drives"
• "prevents"
• "is responsible for"
• "causal mechanism"

Output Modes

Default output:

• Polished text only.

When the user asks for edit rationale:

• Polished text.
• Major edits.
• Claim-safety notes.

Quality Checklist

• The science was not changed.
• No new references or results were added.
• Causal language is used only when evidence supports it.
• Terminology is consistent.
• The final text is ready for author review, not automatic submission.