Modern 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 feature…
"Modern 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 featur…
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…
Modern 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 feature…
Modern 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 feature…
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…