Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition
Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors.…
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker struggle with it. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholars like sociologist Howard S.
Repeat.This is not a book about sociological writing. And it provides a clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. 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