Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Peck MacDonald
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| Autore: |
MacDonald Susan
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| Titolo: |
Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Peck MacDonald
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | Paperback ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.066001 |
| 808/.066001 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authorship |
| Humanities literature - Authorship | |
| Social sciences - Authorship | |
| Scholarly publishing | |
| Academic writing | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences |
| ISBN: | 1-280-69804-7 |
| 9786613675002 | |
| 0-8093-8599-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789528803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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