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

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Author: Howard S. Becker
Creator: Pamela Richards
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book

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Pages: 208
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ISBN: 0226041328
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0663
EAN: 9780226041322
ASIN: 0226041328

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Valuable September 14, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Writing for Social Scientists is written primarily for individuals who wants to hone their writing skills. br /Howard Becker's primary intent is to desmitify and remove the fear of writing. br /br /Becker explores the fear of the black page and suggests techniques for getting started. He advocates for simple, direct language, avoiding the curse of "one right way", and challenges stodgy academic writing. He offers insights for solving writing problems based on his 35 years of experience as a researcher, writer and teacher. br /br /Becker succeeds in making the reader more comfortable with the writing process. However, he leaves writers with the dilemma of writing for the target audience, writing for the "ear", or standards of taste, or to compromise. br /br /The reader will find his perspective valuable and useful fro the writing process. Lastly, the book is well written and highly readable. (Class PAPA 6014)br /

5 out of 5 stars

The book is helpful August 21, 2003
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

Having read a bunch of books on the topic of doing your thesis, I was a bit desperate since none of them seemed to offer really practical advices on how to tackle the problem of starting to write. I got lost in how to read and write a literature review and how to talk to your committee members, and only when I start reading Becker's book I found this seemingly crazy but increadibly fine advice: sit down and write - just about everything that comes into your mind. If you get stuck, put it down. Your first draft will be much of a weird writing, but only through materializing it you will be able to make further steps forward. I've read this book in less than two days and have brightened my view of this huge task in front of me. The only redundant thing is the chapter on using the computer, since it became a usual stuff since this book was published. Everything else is a true confidence booster!

2 out of 5 stars

From a clinical psychologist who coaches academics: April 27, 2003
2 out of 47 found this review helpful

In the final chapter of his book, Becker writes that "(r)eading this book will not solve all your writing problems. It will hardly solve any of them." I agree.

5 out of 5 stars

Becker gets you going January 22, 2002
24 out of 24 found this review helpful

Starting Chapter 1 of my dissertation proposal scared the living daylights out of me. Where to start? How much do I need to research and read before I actually start writing? And then there is the never-ending Here's just one more article/book/website I need to read/investigate before I can even start *thinking* about writing refrain...pBecker, in a very straight-forward and humorous manner, gets you going. He lets you know the absolute fear you are feeling is perfectly normal and that the first draft is just that - a first draft. It doesn't have to be perfect; in fact it *shouldn't* be perfect. After reading this book, I simply sat down and started writing. I didn't worry about punctuation or sentence structure, I just wrote. Some of it ended up in the trash, but much of what I wrote on the first go-around was molded into some very good work.pThanks to Howard Becker I think I might actual graduate!

5 out of 5 stars

what is like living as scholar October 5, 2001
5 out of 13 found this review helpful

Several others reviewed this book already. but I want to mention a point on this book. You could peep into what is the life of scholar throughout reading this book. this book is not merely writing guide. there are many other books on writing. but the place where this book should be put is not there, I think. the author, he himself has some name in Sociology, show you what is the life of scholar by the topic of writing. he persuasively illustrate the fear to write of not only graduate students but also professional scholars. I recommend to read Randall Collins The Sociology of Philosophies, if you want to peep into more details on the life of scholar. I think Collinss book is better, volumetric and systematic on that matter. But the merit of this book is that you can capture what is like living as scholar in more private sight.

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