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Learn To Write Badly How To Succeed In The Social SciencesLearn To Write Badly How To Succeed In The Social Sciences

Learn To Write Badly How To Succeed In The Social Sciences

Michael Billig

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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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OL17420513W

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Social sciences, researchEnglish languageCommunication in the social sciencesResearchSocial sciencesWritingSozialwissenschaftenKommunikation

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