Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

Name: Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
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ISBN: 9780226041087

ISBN-10: 0226041085

ISBN-13: 9780226041087

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Howard S. Becker

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Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. Distinguished sociologist Howard S. Becker, true to his calling, looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this highly personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity.Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structured by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication,…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 187
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Freshman English for Graduate Students



Persona and Authority



One Right Way



Editing by Ear



Learning to Write as a Professional



Risk, by Pamela Richards



Getting It out the Door



Terrorized by the Literature



Friction and Word Processors



A Final Word


References


Index