Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences
- ISBN-10
- 1107027055
- ISBN-13
- 9781107027053
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-20
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Michael Billig
Description
A humorous, clearly written scholarly analysis of what is going wrong with the way that social scientists write.
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