Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences
Published:
2010, c1994
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville
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...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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. 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
