Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article /

"For more than 30 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 con...

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Main Authors: Becker, Howard S (Howard Saul), 1928- (Author), Becker, Howard S (Howard Saul), 1928-2023 (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Other Authors: Richards, Pamela
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020
Edition:Third edition
Series:Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, then and now
  • A final word