Re: Writing in the Social Sciences

[Neal Lerner <nlerner@acs.bu.edu>]

Hi, Karen.  I'm afraid I don't have a source for you but instead an 
idealistic suggestion.  Would it work to have it be the project for your 
students to investigate the conventions of writing in the social 
sciences and the sources for those conventions?  They could read and 
critique social science writing (which covers lots of territory without 
monolithic conventions!), talk to social scientists about why they make 
the writing decisions they do, write some preliminary social science-type 
pieces.  This is where I'm trying to move to in the various classes I 
teach, so I'm afraid I'm not speaking from experience here but instead 
from an ideal.

	Neal Lerner
	nlerner@acs.bu.edu

On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Karin Gosselink wrote:

> Everyone--
> 
> Does anyone know of good books and/or articles about writing in the social
> sciences?  We're seeing an increase in students from social science
> Writing in the Disciplines courses, and I'd like to expose my mostly
> English Ed. tutors to the slightly different rhetoric encouraged in
> the social sciences.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Karin Gosselink
> u15593@uicvm.uic.edu
>