How a book is written - Couverture souple

Macfarlane, Prof Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1490910395 ISBN 13 : 9781490910390

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This is an experiment. To my knowledge, no historian, anthropologist, sociologist or archaeologist has ever published an account of how he or she actually wrote a complex book. There are plenty of 'after the fact' accounts, but these do not catch the uncertainties, spontaneous surprise, dead ends, sudden break-throughs and sheer hard work that actually occurs. Because those who are learning the craft of writing (particularly the huge number now writing Ph.D. theses) have no access to honest accounts of the process as it occurs, they may gain a distorted picture of how a book is created. This, with all its faults, is an attempt to remedy this situation. It is written by Alan Macfarlane, who has published more than twenty books in various fields and had to learn the art of moving beyond the Ph.D. writing styles which he used in his doctorates in history and anthropology. His academic works are described on his website at www.alanmacfarlane.com

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1490910395
• ISBN 13: 9781490910390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg