Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article / Howard S. Becker ; with a chapter by Pamela Richards.
Material type: TextSeries: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishingPublisher: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago press 2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 197 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226041308 (hbk.) :
- 0226041301(hbk.) :
- 9780226041322 (pbk.) :
- 808.0663 22
- H61.8 .B43 2007
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Previous ed. 1986.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer's block. In this book, sociologist Howard S. Becker shows how to conquer these pressures and simply write.
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