Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article /
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has offered readers a powerful reassurance. Academic writing is difficult, and even accomplished scholars like Howard S. Becker struggle with it. Becker, the consummate sociologist, both analyzes how the professional context of academia contr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
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| Summary: | For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has offered readers a powerful reassurance. Academic writing is difficult, and even accomplished scholars like Howard S. Becker struggle with it. Becker, the consummate sociologist, both analyzes how the professional context of academia contributes to writing problems and offers concrete advice, based on his own experiences and those of his students and colleagues, for overcoming them and gaining confidence as a writer. While the underlying challenges have remained the same over the years, the context in which academic writers work has changed dramatically, thanks to technology and new institutional pressures. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect these changes, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and persuasively. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226683638 022668363X 9780226643939 022664393X |