SOCIOL 1A06 Quiz: Soc Quiz 1 Review

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1A06
• Professor: Sandra Colavecchia

Document Summary

Becker describes the writing strategies used by students as they begin to write as: (a) automated (b) ***magic rituals (c) formulaic (d) structured (e) unstructured. Rosanna hertz suggested that complicated hard to read academic writing (a) ***is intentional. It is meant to maintain distance between academics and non-academics (b) is unintentional. It arises because of the nature of scholarly research (c) is more likely to be found among older academics (d) is more likely to be found in the social sciences (e) b and c only. Writing that it is intentional, because this was originally for only other academics to read.