Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with th

Using rich examples and engaging pedagogical tools, this book equips students to master the challenges of academic writing in graduate school and beyond. The au

Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and in

A humorous, clearly written scholarly analysis of what is going wrong with the way that social scientists write.

Introduction: so you want to go public? -- Writing beyond the academy -- Telling stories about your research -- Books for general audiences -- The digital turn