02170nam a22003138a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002200224082001800246100003000264245010700294264005200401300005900453336002600512337002600538338003600564500007300600520103600673650004101709776003501750856007101785CR9781139208833UkCbUP20180107143410.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||111209s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139208833 (ebook)  z9781107027053 (hardback)  z9781107676985 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aH61.8 b.B55 201300a808.06/632231 aBillig, Michael,eauthor.10aLearn to Write Badly :bHow to Succeed in the Social Sciences / [electronic resource]cMichael Billig. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (244 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aModern 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. 0aCommunication in the social sciences08iPrint version: z978110702705340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208833zCambridge Books Online