Reading Assignment for Section 4.4

Read the following subsection from our online textbook: Section 4.4: Your Own Style.

What You Will Learn

In this section, you’ll understand the importance of developing a personal writing style in social science research, balancing adherence to style guides with your unique voice. You’ll learn to ensure clarity, coherence, and effective use of sentence variety, while avoiding clichés, jargon, and euphemisms. You’ll develop skills in concise and precise writing, reducing redundancy, simplifying wordy expressions, limiting the use of intensifiers, and preferring active over passive voice. Additionally, you’ll master the art of formal writing, maintaining objectivity and precision, using effective transitions and inclusive language, avoiding colloquialisms and informal structures, and correctly citing sources to avoid plagiarism.

Student Learning Outcomes for Section 4.4

• SLO 1: Understand the importance of developing a personal writing style in social science research, balancing adherence to style guides with unique voice, while ensuring clarity, coherence, and effective use of sentence variety, avoiding clichés, jargon, and euphemisms.
• SLO 2: Develop skills in concise and precise writing, reducing redundancy, simplifying wordy expressions, limiting the use of intensifiers, and preferring active over passive voice, thereby enhancing clarity and readability in academic writing.
• SLO 3: Master the art of formal writing, maintaining objectivity, precision in language choice, effective use of transitions, and inclusivity, while avoiding colloquialisms and informal sentence structures, and understanding the imperative of citing sources correctly to avoid plagiarism.

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