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Richardson uses her own experience to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media, she prepares the writer for approaching and successfully addressing diverse audiences. This book will be useful to all social scientists trying to present their material in different ways.
| Editors' Introduction | 5 | |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | 7 | |
| Introduction | 9 | |
| Part I | Theoretical Issues | 11 |
| 1. | Contemporary Writing Issues | 11 |
| 2. | Science Writing | 12 |
| Scientific Writing in Historical Context | 13 | |
| The Rhetoric of Science | 15 | |
| 3. | Literary Devices in Social Science Writing | 17 |
| Synecdoche | 17 | |
| Metaphor | 18 | |
| 4. | Narrative | 20 |
| Everyday Life | 22 | |
| Autobiography | 23 | |
| Biography | 24 | |
| The Cultural Story | 24 | |
| The Collective Story | 25 | |
| 5. | Authority and Authorship | 26 |
| Part II | Practical Solutions | 29 |
| 6. | Discovering a Collective Story | 29 |
| 7. | Writing a Trade Book | 30 |
| Encoding | 32 | |
| Trade Encoding | 33 | |
| Academic Encoding | 34 | |
| Feminist Encoding | 35 | |
| Narrative Stance | 35 | |
| Analytical Chronologies | 37 | |
| Tone | 38 | |
| Structuring Quotations and Biographical Narratives | 39 | |
| Short Quotations and Biographical Events | 40 | |
| Embedded Quotations | 41 | |
| Longer Quotations | 42 | |
| Thematic Biographical Narratives | 44 | |
| Synecdoche | 47 | |
| 8. | Writing Academic Papers | 48 |
| In-Progress Papers | 49 | |
| Narrative Stance | 50 | |
| The Typology | 50 | |
| The Continuum | 51 | |
| Getting Feedback | 52 | |
| Later Papers | 53 | |
| Narrative Stance | 54 | |
| Writing "Generality" | 56 | |
| Writing Methods and "Findings" | 57 | |
| 9. | Writing for Mass Circulation | 60 |
| Conclusion | 63 | |
| References | 66 | |
| About the Author | 71 |
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