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Learn To Write Badly How To Succeed In The Social Sciences

by Michael Billig

Social sciences, researchEnglish languageCommunication in the social sciencesResearchSocial sciencesWritingSozialwissenschaftenKommunikation

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.

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