Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

ISBN-10
1139208837
ISBN-13
9781139208833
Category
Communication in the social sciences
Language
English
Published
2013
Author
Michael Billig

Description

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.

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