Reading and Writing for the Social Sciences: How to Interpret and Marshal the Literature, Rather than be Terrorized by It

dc.creator	N.A.J. TAYLOR
dc.date	2011-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:15:44Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:15:44Z
dc.identifier	2066-7329
dc.identifier	2067-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ca43ed5bad3a4483872676e8056a6f83
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17864
dc.description	Undergraduates are seldom taught how to be a student of the Social Sciences. The lack of emphasis on teaching Social Science as a language is an oversight of many of its scholars to equip their students with the skills necessary to usefully engage the literature. Quite apart from many excellent courses in research design for final year honors students, I argue that all students should be afforded the same opportunity to engage and reflect on what it is to be a social scientist as they do its theories and findings. This note aims to empower the student with confidence in interpreting and marshaling the literature, by dipping into a select number of texts that usefully ask: how do I sustain a reasoned argument? I argue it is through developing effective reading and writing skills that penetrate texts to uncover their central meaning, rather than be ‘terrorized by the literature’.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Romanian
dc.publisher	Lumen
dc.relation	http://revistaromaneasca.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/REV-ROM-6-2.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2066-7329
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2067-9270
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, Vol 3, Iss 6, Pp 17-21 (2011)
dc.subject	Essay writing
dc.subject	Academic reading
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Reading and Writing for the Social Sciences: How to Interpret and Marshal the Literature, Rather than be Terrorized by It
dc.type	article