Writing Between the Lines: Composition in the Social Sciences

by Douglas Flemons

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.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[TK Keanini · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I found this book I could not believe it. Here is someone who was a practicing cybernetician and he wanted to teach writing through a cybernetic approach. Oh my god.

Gregory Bateson would have been very proud of this work and I find it the most appropriate way to understand grammer and sentence structure.

This book is so important to me that I thought of buying a backup copy.