Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition / Edition 2

by Howard S. Becker

Overview

Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structures by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication, and the conditions for promotion, and the pressures arising from these situations create the writing style so often lampooned and lamented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900226041321
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/15/2007
Series:	Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Howard S. Becker lives and works in San Francisco. He is the author of several books, including Outsiders, Tricks of the Trade, and Telling About Society. 
 
 
 
 

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition     vii
1986 Preface     ix
Freshman English for Graduate Students     1
Persona and Authority     26
One Right Way     43
Editing by Ear     68
Learning to Write as a Professional     90
Risk   Pamela Richards     108
Getting It out the Door     121
Terrorized by the Literature     135
Writing with Computers     150
A Final Word     173
References     185
Index     193