- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (15 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415188474
- ISBN-13: 978-0415188470
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 1.5 cm
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It is always difficult to know how to write up research, and as academics and postgraduates alike come under increasing pressure to improve rates of publication a text like this one is essential reading for all researchers.
The book discusses all aspects of translating research into writing, including:
* getting started and keeping going
* putting into words what you want to say
* ways of organizing your work
* coping with problems, blockages and sustaining morale
*style and format
*editing your writing
*writing alone and writing in a team
*approaching problems and getting published.
This book will be of use to students, researchers and writers concerned with getting their research written and having it published.
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Qualitative, but not Quality
2 April 2000
Format:Paperback
It may be unfair, but I hold writers who tell other writers how to write to a higher standard of writing. I also hold social scientists who tell other social scientists how to conduct social science to a higher standard of social science. The author has not written a book that convinced me that he is, in fact, an authority on writing. It also does not appear that any research has gone into this book; many of the examples are from his own writing or from the papers of his students.
The subject is a very important one, but I closed this book not feeling that I had gained much from it. The author has written this book in a style that assumes one is reading it from cover to cover. However, I don't use writing reference books this way (and I suspect that many other struggling social scientist wanna-be writers don't either).
There are some nuggets of wisdom here. I found myself shuddering when the author identified all the elements of bad social science writing that I had either indulged in or had read! Nevertheless, the book is not one that I would recommend. Would SOMEBODY out there please write a workbook or reference-book-style social science guide?
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