Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start & Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start & Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

by Howard S. Becker
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start & Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start & Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article

by Howard S. Becker

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Overview

The classic guide to avoiding pitfalls and achieving success in academic writing—in a fully updated edition with a new preface by the author.

For decades, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for academic writers of all fields, from beginning students to seasoned professionals. With reassuring candor, author and sociologist Howard S. Becker identifies some of the common problems all academic writers face, including from procrastination and stifling perfectionism to getting caught up in the trappings of “proper” academic writing, 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.

This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect the contemporary landscape of academic writing, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and persuasively. As academics are called upon to write more often, in more formats, Writing for Social Scientists continues be an important resource for any writer’s shelf.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226644097
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/22/2022
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 193
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Howard S. Becker has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lives and works in San Francisco and Paris.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
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. Writing with Computers, Then and Now
10. A Final Word
References
Index
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