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Writing for social scientists : how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article / Howard S. Becker, with a chapter by Pamela Richards.
LIBRA H91 .B4 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Authorship.
- Social sciences.
- Sociology--Authorship.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 169-175.
- ISBN:
- 0226041077
- 0226041085
- OCLC:
- 12370161
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