Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition – December 15, 2007

Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Paperback – December 15, 2007

Author: Visit Amazon's Howard S. Becker Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0226041328 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition – December 15, 2007
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• Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; Second Edition edition (December 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780226041322
• ISBN-13: 978-0226041322
• ASIN: 0226041328
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #14 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Reference
  • #58 in Books > Medical Books > Research

Howard S. Becker, the author of "Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article", is a social scientist. Of course, no respectable scientist, social or non-social, would dare generalizing to other fields of knowledge the findings laboriously made in his own field. So, Becker conservatively addresses his book just to "social scientists". Writing is, however, an essential aptitude for any scientist. In fact, it is no less crucial to the survival of the scientist, as a scientist, than his or her own aptitudes to read or think logically. So, what Becker writes in his book is just as important to social scientists as it is to any other kind of scientist. Quite paradoxically, most scientists initiate and develop their scientific careers without devoting a single minute of their time to specifically learning how to write. Anyone would agree that it is impossible to play good tennis without proper training, and whoever wished to become a professional tennis player by just playing along would very likely be regarded as downright naive. This is, however, what most scientists do when it comes to writing. Becker's book does not fall in the category of the so called "how-to" books. It is, rather, a personal reflection written in a very entertaining and conversational style by an academic who addresses his fellow academics, not from the top of a pulpit, but from the cultural standpoint of the beliefs, traditions, aspirations and rites of their common academic life. It covers, in this way, a remarkably diverse collection of central aspects of scientific writing, such as the crucial role of editing and rewriting (and rewriting, and rewriting), the fear of scorn, the encounters with writer's block, or the urge to produce pompous and obscure texts.

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