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020			_a9781139208833 (ebook)
020			_z9781107027053 (hardback)
020			_z9781107676985 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aH61.8 _b.B55 2013
082	0	0	_a808.06/63 _223
100	1		_aBillig, Michael, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLearn to Write Badly : _bHow to Succeed in the Social Sciences / _cMichael Billig.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (244 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aModern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists is routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are social science postgraduates being taught to write poorly? What conditions adversely affect the way they write? And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig's witty and entertaining book analyses these questions in a quest to pinpoint exactly what is going wrong with the way social scientists write. Using examples from diverse fields such as linguistics, sociology and experimental social psychology, Billig shows how technical terminology is regularly less precise than simpler language. He demonstrates that there are linguistic problems with the noun-based terminology that social scientists habitually use - 'reification' or 'nominalization' rather than the corresponding verbs 'reify' or 'nominalize'. According to Billig, social scientists not only use their terminology to exaggerate and to conceal, but also to promote themselves and their work.
650		0	_aCommunication in the social sciences
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107027053
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208833
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37439 _d37439