The Sociology Student Writer's Manual

by Johnson, William A., Jr.; Rettig, Richard P.; Scott, Greg M; Garrison, Stephen M.

• ISBN13: 9780205723454
• ISBN10: 0205723454
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-08
• Publisher: Pearson

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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