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

Name: Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780226041322

ISBN-10: 0226041328

ISBN-13: 9780226041322

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Howard S. Becker, Pamela Richards

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Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.nbsp;nbsp; Sociologist Howard S. Becker has writtentheclassic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago,Writing for Social Scientistshas become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker’s message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. It is not always an easy process, as Becker…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


1986 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


Writing with Computers


A Final Word


References


Index