书籍介绍
一本薄薄的小册子，却精准戳中了社科研究者最隐秘的羞耻：不是不会写，而是不敢写。贝克尔把'写作恐惧'摊开来讲——害怕把作品交给陌生人审视、害怕长篇压垮工作记忆、害怕第一稿的丑陋。他的解药朴素得近乎冒犯：先写，别怕写烂；把'说人话'当作职业操守，主动交代'谁对谁做了什么'，而非用被动语态藏起责任。书里几乎不提供高级技巧，真正值钱的是一种态度：写作不是灵光乍现的艺术，而是可以拆解、可被反复修改的社会劳动。适合那些被'写不下去'折磨、又厌倦了学术黑话的人——它不教你写出杰作，只帮你先写出能看的东西。
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核心看点
- 将学术写作视为社会活动，剖析职业结构对文风的影响
- 提倡先写后改，通过快速初稿克服写作恐惧与拖延
- 强调说人话，反对晦涩冗长，主张清晰直接的表达
读者共识
- 直击写作痛点，有效缓解学术写作的心理恐慌
- 核心建议是勤动笔、反复改、用通俗语言表达
- 虽技巧有限，但对破除完美主义拖延症极有帮助
精彩摘录
- "这个方法使你能够完美地学习到一点：那些真正作数的都是最终版作品，井且没有人会对你错误的开头或不正确的观点提出指责，只要你在写作过程中找到了一些好的东西就行。"
- "思想生活是对同一个话题感兴趣的人们之间的对话。你可以偷偷旁听这种对话并从中学习，但最终你自己也该为它添砖加瓦。你的研究一旦完成，就应该把它写出来，并通过发表而让它加人这种对话。"
- "过去，发表作品的主要目的是让人们了解某个领域里最新的科研和思想发展，但现在它有了一个新的让人讨厌的职责——在大学决定雇用哪些人或给哪些人终身教职的程序中，它也是一部分。你通过发表文章——尤其在舆论视为“最好”的期刊上发表文章——而获得一份工作（特别是“好”工作）并获得升职。"
- "Sociologists often prefer locutions that leave the answer to that question unclear, largely because many of their theories don't tell them who is doing what. In many sociological theories, things just happen without anyone doing them"
- "Sociologists' inability or unwillingness to make causal statements similarly leads to bad writing (...) Sociologists have many ways of describing how elements covary, most of them vacuous expressions hinting at what would like, but don't dare, to say."
- "Should such a theorist use passive constructions to indicate the passivity of the human actors involved? That question requires two answers. The simpler is that few serious theories of society leave no room for agency. (...) passive constructions even hide the agency attributed to systems and struct"
- "We agreed that the way to work with such a draft was to take notes on it, see what it contained, and then make an outline for another draft (..) Worrying about those faults might slow you down, keep you from saying something in one of the ways that would give you the clue you needed. Better edit aft"
- "He showed how writers in the students' own field manipulated stylistic devices to sound "scientific", particularly noting how passive constructions could produce a facade of impersonality the investigator could hide behind"
用户评论
写作是一门艺术。10秒内让读者厌烦，就会被淘汰
读完才发现已经有了中文版，但加了个不准确的标题。
好书，提出了写作恐惧症，拖延症的应对方案。作者认为，写作，尤其是第一稿，一定不能怀有太大负担，提出“急速直觉初稿写作法”，有啥写啥，在写作中思考，最后通过不断revision来架构框架，修正逻辑，以及流畅文字。每章前面的小漫画加一星。
不错。喜欢其对free writing和投稿的阐释。
从“写作恐惧症”的角度来说使我认识到大家都是一样的。。不过还是得写得改么。他提的把同事的早期草稿拿过来让学生一起做修改和批评的招感觉很好也！
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