Writing the Social Science Research Article

Most guides to academic writing tell you what to do. This one shows you what researchers actually do. Writing the Social Science Research Article draws on a purpose-built corpus of 163 published articles to reveal the patterns, conventions and rhetorical moves that characterise successful Social Science papers. Each unit examines a specific aspect of the research article from the structure of the Introduction to the use of hedges and boosters in different sections of the paper. The book combines quantitative corpus findings with detailed analysis of real examples.

Suitable for graduate students, early-career researchers, and anyone preparing a manuscript for publication in the Social Sciences.

This book is part of the CorpusLAB series of discipline-specific writing guides. Each volume is based on a dedicated corpus of published research articles and is accompanied by a free online concordance tool at corpuslab.com, allowing readers to search authentic examples from their own field.

Available disciplines include Engineering, Business, Economics, Social Science, and Arts & Humanities.

Michael Barlow is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He received a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University. His research spans corpus linguistics, usage-based approaches to language, and discipline-specific academic discourse. He is the author of Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics (Brill, 2023), co-author of The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering (John Benjamins, 2023), and the developer of several widely used corpus tools including WordSkew, ParaConc, and MonoConc.