Writing Between the Lines: Composition in the Social Sciences

About this book

An accessible guide for writers in the social sciences. With friendly irreverence Douglas Flemons demystifies the creative and scholarly demands of social-scientific writing. He walks readers through the process of researching organizing creating and editing papers theses and dissertations. Avoiding grammarianese he shows how sentences tell stories and how punctuation marks and certain words give readers necessary directional cues. The guiding premise here is that keeping track of relationships between words sentences and paragraphs will enable writers to compose clear thoughtful aesthetic prose.