Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish... /​ Howard S. Becker

Title

• Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article / Howard S. Becker ; with a chapter by Pamela Richards.

Author

• Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-

Other Authors

• Richards, Pamela.

Published

• Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1986]

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series

• Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
• Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Subjects

• Schreiben.
• Sozialwissenschaften.
• Wissenschaftliches Manuskript.
• Ciencias sociales -- Metodología.
• Escritos científicos.
• Sciences sociales -- Art d'écrire.
• Sociologie -- Art d'écrire.
• Schrijfvaardigheid.
• Uitgeven.
• Wetenschappelijke publicaties.
• Sociale wetenschappen.
• Sciences sociales -- Méthodologie.
• Sociologie -- Méthodologie.
• Academic writing.
• Social sciences -- Authorship.
• Sociology -- Authorship.
• Dissertations, Academic.
• Writing.
• Social Sciences.
• United States Authorship by social scientists - Manuals

Summary

• An examination of the moral and emotional problems at the root of bad writing.

Contents

• Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article / Howard S. Becker, with a chapter by Pamela Richards.
• Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
• Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
• Preface
• 1. Freshman English for Graduate Students
• 2. Persona and Authority
• 3. One Right Way
• 4. Editing by Ear
• 5. Learning to Write as a Professional
• 6. Risk, by Pamela Richards
• 7. Getting It out the Door
• 8. Terrorized by the Literature
• 9. Friction and Word Processors
• 10. A Final Word
• References
• 2 More...

Notes

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 169-175.
• Self-Renewing 2017

Language

• English