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Feeling a little bitter about having to read and/or write social science books that seem to hide their basic points in unnecessarily fancy rhetoric Then you need some advice from Michael Billig, who has figured out how to succeed as an academic by writing really badly. Billig doesn ;t want you to think he writes badly, though. In his new book from Cambridge University Press, Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, Billig devotes an entire social science treatise to snarking about other scholars ; bad writing. He even has a theory about why their writing has gotten so rank. Here the blurb: Mod
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