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  1. The other shore
    essays on writers and writing
    Author: Jackson, Michael
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520275241; 0520275268; 0520954823; 9780520275249; 9780520275263; 9780520954823
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; American fiction; Authorship; English language / Writing; English literature; Englisch; American fiction; English literature; English language; Authorship; Amerikanisches Englisch; Schriftsteller; Schreiben
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references

    In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith

    Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 The Other Shore; 2 The Red Road; 3 Kindred Spirits; 4 Writing under the Influence; 5 A Typewriter Collecting Dust; 6 Writing in Limbo; 7 The Magical Power of Words; 8 Flights of Fancy; 9 Writing Fellowship; 10 There Go I; 11 Love Letters; 12 Writing for Bare Life; 13 Writing So As Not to Die; 14 Chinese Boxes; 15 The Writing on the Wall; 16 Writing out of the Blue; 17 A Storyteller's Story; 18 Writing in the Dark; 19 Writing in the Zone; 20 Writing, Naturally; 21 Writing Workshop; 22 The Books in My Life; 23 Writing Utopia; 24 Writing in Search of Lost Time

    25 Writing about Writers26 Writing in Ruins; 27 Writing as a Way of Life; Notes; Acknowledgments
  2. Learn to write badly
    how to succeed in the social sciences
    Author: Billig, Michael
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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?... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    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 diverse fields such as linguistics, sociology and experimental social psychology, Billig shows how technical terminology is regularly less precise than simpler language. He demonstrates that there are linguistic problems with the noun-based terminology that social scientists habitually use - 'reification' or 'nominalization' rather than the corresponding verbs 'reify' or 'nominalize'. According to Billig, social scientists not only use their terminology to exaggerate and to conceal, but also to promote themselves and their work

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139208833
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    RVK Categories: MR 1100
    Subjects: Englisch; Sozialwissenschaften; Communication in the social sciences; Social sciences / Research; English language / Writing; Stilistik; Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten; Sozialwissenschaften; Textproduktion; Schriftliche Kommunikation
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages)
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    Introduction -- Mass publication and academic life -- Learning to write badly -- Jargon, nouns and acronyms -- Turning people into things -- How to avoid saying who did it -- Some sociological things: governmentality, cosmopolitanization and conversation analysis -- Experimental social psychology: concealing and exaggerating -- Conclusion and recommendations
  3. Learn to write badly
    how to succeed in the social sciences
    Author: Billig, Michael
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107676985; 9781107027053
    RVK Categories: AK 39580
    Subjects: Communication in the social sciences; Social sciences / Research; English language / Writing
    Scope: viii, 234 Seiten, 23 cm
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke (2016)

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 216-229