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Academic style audit

Reads the rendered prose on every public route and flags three things: phrasing that belongs to a product page rather than a paper, sentences that read as mechanistic where the manuscript is descriptive, and pages that state headline results without carrying their qualifications.

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Each route is rendered in an offscreen frame and its main region is stripped of tables, code, figures and chart fallbacks, so only prose is scanned. Mechanistic matches inside a hedged sentence are downgraded to a review item rather than dropped, because hedging can be doing too little work. The rules live in src/lib/style-rules.ts.

Rule set

Style rules applied by this audit
RuleSeverityEditorial reason
Hype adverbflagIntensifiers overstate dispersion the paper reports numerically.
Product languageflagThis is a research artifact, not a product page.
Conversational fillerflagSlogan and filler phrasing compresses qualified claims.
Second person addressreviewAcademic prose addresses the reader impersonally.
ContractionreviewContractions read as informal in a scholarly register.
Unqualified superlativereviewSuperlatives are claims the manuscript does not make.
Causal verbflagThe decomposition is an accounting identity, not an identification strategy.
Explanatory claimflagThe paper observes rankings, not the beliefs and expectations behind them.
Effect languagereviewReserve “effect” and “impact” for estimates the paper identifies.
Preferences assertedreviewA submitted list is informative about ordering, not a preference parameter.