Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences

by Laurel Richardson

Richardson uses her own experience to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media, she prepares the writer for approaching and successfully addressing diverse audiences. This book will be useful to all social scientists trying to present their material in different ways.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Laurel Richardson (b. 1936) is an American sociologist known for her work on qualitative sociology and the sociology of gender. Her numerous works include Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences, The New Other Woman, and The Dynamics of Sex and Gender. She has received numerous commendations and honors for her work, including a Feminist Mentor Award frm the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and a commendation from the Ohio state legislature for her work on reducing inequality. Richardson received her undergraduate education at Shimer College, where she enrolled through the early entrance program, and at the University of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. She is currently a professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, where she taught from 1969 to her retirement in 2004. (from Shimer College Wiki)

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Richardson begins with the thesis that all writing (logico-scientific or not) is narrative at its very essence. I found this analysis interesting and wanted her to continue discussions of metaphor and voice, but she moved into a bigger discussion of narrative stance and writing for different sources. There seemed to be nothing new in the latter half - a continuation of the first would have done wonders.