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Learn to write badly

Paperback • 2013 • English

Learn to write badly

By Michael Billig

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About the book

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 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. Using examples from div...Show more

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9781107676985

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Learn to write badly

Format

Paperback

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