Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing) - Softcover

Becker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226041085 ISBN 13: 9780226041087

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Synopsis

Acutely sensitive to the anxieties that plague social science writers, Becker does a brilliant job of speaking to the moral and emotional problems at the root of bad writing. He shows students (and post-graduates) what they are doing wrong in their attempts to write and offers eminently useful suggestions about what they should be doing instead.

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About the Author

Howard S. Becker has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He has also written extensively on the practice of sociology. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He became professor of sociology at Northwestern University, where he taught for twenty-five years. When he retired from active teaching he was a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lives and works in San Francisco and Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0226041085
• ISBN 13: 9780226041087
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192