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The Sociology Student Writer's Manual

by: Johnson, William A.; Rettig, Richard P.; Scott, Gregory M.; Garrison, Stephen M.

The Sociology Student Writer's Manual

by: Johnson, William A.; Rettig, Richard P.; Scott, Gregory M.; Garrison, Stephen M.

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0131928511
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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The most comprehensive book available that dealsspecificallywith 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 writingformatting, source citations, grammar, sentence structure, research, and utilizing available sourcesin sociology.For practicing sociologists and those in training.

TO THE STUDENT

TO THE INSTRUCTOR

INTRODUCTION: WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY

(12)

What Is Sociology?

(2)

Different Kinds of Sociology

(1)

Some Fundamental Ideas of Sociology

(3)

A Brief History of Sociology

(3)

The Rise of American Sociology

(1)

Major Sociological Perspectives

(1)

A Final Note

(2)

PART I A HANDBOOK OF STYLE FOR SOCIOLOGY

(86)

CHAPTER 1 WRITING AS COMMUNICATION

(25)

1.1 Writing to Learn

(4)

1.2 The Writing Process

(19)

1.3 Levels of Academic Writing

(2)

CHAPTER 2 WRITING COMPETENTLY

(23)

2.1 Guidelines for the Competent Writer

(3)

2.2 Some Rules of Punctuation and Grammar

(16)

2.3 Spelling

(4)

CHAPTER 3 FORMATS

(17)

3.1 General Page Format

(1)

3.2 Title Page

(1)

3.3 Abstract

(1)

3.4 Executive Summary

(6)

3.5 Outline Page

(1)

3.6 Table of Contents

(1)

3.7 List of Tables and Figures

(4)

3.8 Tables

(1)

3.9 Illustrations and Figures

(1)

3.10 Text

(1)

3.11 Headings and Subheadings

(1)

3.12 References

(1)

3.13 Appendixes

(2)

CHAPTER 4 CITING SOURCES

(20)

4.1 Preliminary Considerations

(1)

4.2 Citing Sources in ASA Format

(19)

PART II CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY

(56)

CHAPTER 5 ORGANIZING THE RESEARCH PROCESS

100

(11)

5.1 Gaining Control of the Research Process

100

(2)

5.2 Effective Research Methods

102

(6)

5.3 Ethical Use of Source Material

108

(3)

CHAPTER 6 SOURCES OF INFORMATION

111

(27)

6.1 Guides to Sociological Literature

112

(10)

6.2 General Periodicals and Newspapers

122

(2)

6.3 Academic Journals

124

(10)

6.4 Researching Books

134

(1)

6.5 U.S. Government Publications

135

(3)

CHAPTER 7 INTERNET RESOURCES AND DISTANCE LEARNING

138

(9)

7.1 Internet Resources for Writing Well

138

(1)

7.2 Sociology Resources on the Internet

139

(2)

7.3 A Guide to Distance Learning

141

(6)

CHAPTER 8 DOING SOCIAL RESEARCH

147

(8)

8.1 Thinking Scientifically

147

(1)

8.2 The Scientific Method

148

(6)

8.3 Common Quantitative Research Designs

154

(1)

PART III HOW TO WRITE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOCIOLOGY PAPERS

155

(80)

CHAPTER 9 SOCIAL ISSUE PAPERS

156

(25)

9.1 Issue Reaction Papers

156

(7)

9.2 Social Issue Analysis Papers

163

(18)

CHAPTER 10 CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL LITERATURE

181

(23)

10.1 Book Reviews

181

(3)

10.2 Article Critiques

184

(7)

10.3 Literature Reviews

191

(6)

10.4 Annotated Bibliographies

197

(7)

CHAPTER 11 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH PAPERS

204

(15)

11.1 Quantitative Research Designs

204

(4)

11.2 Survey-Based Quantitative Research Papers

208

(11)

CHAPTER 12 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PAPERS

219

(16)

12.1 What Is Qualitative Research?

219

(1)

12.2 Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Research

220

(1)

12.3 Case Studies as Qualitative Research

220

(3)

12.4 A Qualitative Case Study Paper

223

(12)

GLOSSARY

235

(13)

REFERENCES

248

(5)

INDEX

253

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