Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Third Edition
With a Chapter by Pamela Richards and a New Preface
200 pages
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12 halftones
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 2020
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
1. Freshman English for Graduate Students
2. Persona and Authority
3. One Right Way
4. Editing by Ear
5. Learning to Write as a Professional
6. Risk, by Pamela Richards
7. Getting It Out the Door
8. Terrorized by the Literature
9. Writing with Computers, Then and Now
10. A Final Word
References
Index
Review Quotes
Praise for the second edition | Sociology
“Do you have trouble starting writing? Do you always want to hold onto your work until it’s perfect? Are you afraid that you will expose yourself by what you write? Are you terrorized by ‘the literature’? If so, this may be the book that will change your life.”
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