Professional academic writing in the humanities and social sciences /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale and Edwardsville :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2010
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780809385997 0809385996 0809330075 9780809330072 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
