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Title Learn to write badly : how to succeed in the social sciences / Michael Billig (Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University).
Author Billig, Michael, author.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Copyright ©2013


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Description viii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9781107027053 hardback
9781107676985 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-229) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Mass publication and academic life -- Learning to write badly -- Jargon, nouns and acronyms -- Turning people into things -- How to avoid saying who did it -- Some sociological things: governmentality, cosmopolitanization and conversation analysis -- Experimental social psychology: concealing and exaggerating -- Conclusion and recommendations.
Library Class Soc Sci A370.8
Subject Communication in the social sciences.
Social sciences -- Research.
English language -- Writing.
Academic writing.

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