Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences /

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Author / Creator:MacDonald, Susan.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Imprint:Carbondale and Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, ©1994.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 239 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11257532
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ISBN:9780809385997
0809385996
0809330075
9780809330072
9780809330072
0809330075
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: MacDonald, Susan. Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences. Paperback ed. Carbondale and Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, ©1994 9780809330072