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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition - How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, with a Chapter by Pamela Richards (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition - How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, with a Chapter by Pamela Richards (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
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For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been
a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to
published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic
writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholars like
sociologist Howard S. Becker struggle with it. And it provides a
clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a deep breath
and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. This is not a book about
sociological writing. Instead, Becker applies his sociologist's eye
to some of the common problems all academic writers face, including
trying to get it right the first time, failing, and therefore not
writing at all; getting caught up in the trappings of "proper"
academic writing; writing to impress rather than communicate with
readers; and struggling with the when and how of citations. He then
offers concrete advice, based on his own experiences and those of
his students and colleagues, for overcoming these obstacles and
gaining confidence as a writer. While the underlying challenges of
writing have remained the same since the book first appeared, the
context in which academic writers work has changed dramatically,
thanks to rapid changes in technology and ever greater
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. As Becker writes in
the new preface, "Nothing prepared me for the steady stream of mail
from readers who found the book helpful. Not just helpful. Several
told me the book had saved their lives; less a testimony to the
book as therapy than a reflection of the seriousness of the trouble
writing failure could get people into." As academics are being
called on to write more often, in more formats, the experienced,
rational advice in Writing for Social Scientists will be an
important resource for any writer's shelf.
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