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Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education
by Nelson, Cary;Watt, Stephen
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- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0415922038
- ISBN 13
- 9780415922036
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About This Item
New York: Routledge, 1999. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated black sitt wraps (trade paperback). 336 pp. A telling commentary on the words, phrases, concepts and jargon that shape and drive academic discourse. A very tight, clean, crisp, sharp, bright, stiff, square, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. AS NEW..
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- Title
- Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education
- Author
- Nelson, Cary;Watt, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0415922038
- ISBN 13
- 9780415922036
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- NELSON, DICTIONARY, HUMOR, COMMENTARY, ACADEME, WORDS, LINGUISTICS, EDUCATION, HIGHER, SCHOOL, COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, DISCIPLINE, DISCOURSE, NARRATIVE, JARGON, TECHNICAL, TERMS, VOCABULARY, SATIRE, CRITICISM, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIOLOGICAL, KEYWORDS, WRITING, EXPE
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