Overview
Comprehensive and well-balanced, this writing guide is designed to help its reader to prepare effective documents in the field of social science. The revised fourth edition includes coverage of may important topics, including: efficiently using the Internet for research as well as traditional information resources, the need for sustained and thoughtful revision, mastering oral communication, many different citation styles. For anyone interested in writing papers in the field of social science.
Synopsis
This basic writing text offers advice to students about the transition from doing research to writing up one's findings. The book emphasizes the diverse types of writing in the social sciences, explaining some of the terminology used in different fields and the procedures of different types of research, such as original research versus library research papers. Lee (Wellesley College) devotes one chapter to the Internet as a research medium, and offers a full chapter on form as well, discussing the basics of citation (from a variety of sources including the Internet).
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