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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789528803321

Autore

MacDonald Susan

Titolo

Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Peck MacDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-280-69804-7

9786613675002

0-8093-8599-6

Edizione

[Paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

808.066001

808/.066001

Soggetti

Authorship

Humanities literature - Authorship

Social sciences - Authorship

Scholarly publishing

Academic writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Patterns in Disciplinary Variation; Case Studies in Three Subfields; 3. Attachment Research: Compact Problem Definition in a Conceptually Driven Field; 4. Colonial New England Social History: The Problematics of Contemporary History Writing; 5. Renaissance New Historicism: Epistemic and Non epistemic Textual Patterns; Language; 6. Sentence-Level Differences in Disciplinary Knowledge Making; 7. Professional Styles and Their Consequences; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Susan Peck MacDonald tackles important and often controversial contemporary questions regarding the rhetoric of inquiry, the social construction of knowledge, and the professionalization of the academy. MacDonald argues that the academy has devoted more effort to analyzing theory and method than to analyzing its own texts. Professional texts need further attention because they not only create



but are also shaped by the knowledge that is special to each discipline. Her assumption is that knowledge-ma