The Sociology Student Writer's Manual
by Johnson, William A., Jr.; Rettig, Richard P.; Scott, Greg M; Garrison, Stephen M.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-10-08
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
The most comprehensive book available that deals "specifically" with writing sociology papers, this updated reference/manual helps both beginning and advanced sociologists learn how to research and write in sociology, and how to improve their writing ability in general. Teaches the basic skills of writing-formatting, source citations, grammar, sentence structure, research, and utilizing available sources-in sociology. For practicing sociologists and those in training.
Table of Contents
| To the Student | |
| To the Instructor | |
| Introduction: Welcome to the Study of Sociology | p. 1 |
| What Is Sociology? | p. 1 |
| Different Kinds of Sociology | p. 2 |
| Some Fundamental Ideas of Sociology | p. 3 |
| A Brief History of Sociology | p. 5 |
| The Rise of American Sociology | p. 8 |
| Major Sociological Perspectives | p. 9 |
| A Final Note | p. 10 |
| A Handbook of Style for Sociology | p. 11 |
| Writing as Communication | p. 12 |
| Writing to Learn | p. 12 |
| The Writing Process | p. 16 |
| Levels of Academic Writing | p. 36 |
| Writing Competently | p. 38 |
| Guidelines for the Competent Writer | p. 38 |
| Some Rules of Punctuation and Grammar | p. 41 |
| Spelling | p. 56 |
| Formats | p. 60 |
| General Page Format | p. 61 |
| Title Page | p. 61 |
| Abstract | p. 62 |
| Executive Summary | p. 62 |
| Outline Page | p. 68 |
| Table of Contents | p. 68 |
| List of Tables and Figures | p. 68 |
| Tables | p. 72 |
| Illustrations and Figures | p. 73 |
| Text | p. 74 |
| Headings and Subheadings | p. 74 |
| References | p. 75 |
| Appendixes | p. 75 |
| Citing Sources | p. 77 |
| Preliminary Considerations | p. 77 |
| Citing Sources in ASA Format | p. 78 |
| Conducting Research in Sociology | p. 101 |
| Organizing the Research Process | p. 102 |
| Gaining Control of the Research Process | p. 102 |
| Effective Research Methods | p. 104 |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | p. 110 |
| Sources of Information | p. 113 |
| Guides to Sociological Literature | p. 114 |
| General Periodicals and Newspapers | p. 124 |
| Academic Journals | p. 126 |
| Researching Books | p. 127 |
| U.S. Government Publications | p. 128 |
| Internet Resources and Distance Learning | p. 131 |
| Internet Resources for Writing Well | p. 131 |
| Sociology Resources on the Internet | p. 131 |
| The Library of Congress and Thomas | p. 132 |
| A Guide to Distance Learning | p. 133 |
| Doing Social Research | p. 135 |
| Thinking Scientifically | p. 135 |
| The Scientific Method | p. 136 |
| Common Quantitative Research Designs | p. 141 |
| How to write Different Types of Sociology Papers | p. 143 |
| Social Issue Papers | p. 144 |
| Issue Reaction Papers | p. 144 |
| Social Issue Analysis Papers | p. 151 |
| Critical Evaluation of Sociological Literature | p. 169 |
| Book Reviews | p. 169 |
| Article Critiques | p. 172 |
| Literature Reviews | p. 179 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 185 |
| Quantitative Research Papers | p. 192 |
| Quantitative Research Designs | p. 192 |
| Survey-Based Quantitative Research Papers | p. 196 |
| Qualitative Research Papers | p. 225 |
| What Is Qualitative Research? | p. 225 |
| Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Research | p. 226 |
| Case Studies as Qualitative Research | p. 226 |
| A Qualitative Case Study Paper | p. 229 |
| Glossary | p. 239 |
| References | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 256 |
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