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

摘要: Modern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are science postgraduates being taught write poorly? What conditions adversely affect way they write? And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig's witty entertaining book analyses these questions in a quest pinpoint exactly what going wrong with write. Using examples from diverse fields such as linguistics, sociology experimental psychology, Billig shows how technical terminology regularly less precise than simpler language. He demonstrates that there are problems noun-based habitually use - 'reification' or 'nominalization' rather corresponding verbs 'reify' 'nominalize'. According Billig, not only their exaggerate conceal, but also promote themselves work.