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| To the Instructor | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Essentials | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| What is Sociology? | |
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| Framing a Question | |
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| Terms and Strategies in Essay and Exam Assignments | |
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| Developing an Argument: Logic and Structure | |
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| The Proposal | |
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| A Sample Student Proposal | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| The Secret to Writing Is Rewriting | |
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| Outlining | |
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| Writing a First Draft | |
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| Revising | |
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| Writing Styles | |
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| Working with Sources | |
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| Taking Two Kinds of Notes | |
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| Sample Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism: When and What to Cite | |
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| Identifying Your Borrowed Words or Ideas | |
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| Citations in the Text | |
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| Format | |
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| Notes | |
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| References and Bibliographies | |
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| Bibliographic Software | |
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| Writing from Various Data Sources | |
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| The General Research Paper Based on Library or Internet Data | |
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| Before You Start: Choosing a Topic | |
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| Determining Your First Source(s) | |
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| Advantages and Disadvantages of Library and Internet Sources | |
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| Searching Online Information with Boolean Operators and Keywords | |
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| Using the Library to Review the Sociological Literature | |
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| Using the Library to Locate Specialized Sociological References | |
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| General Bibliographic Sources | |
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| Setting Up a Record-Keeping System | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| A Sample Student Paper | |
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| The Textual Analysis (or Article Critique) Paper | |
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| Asking Questions about the Text | |
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| Compare-Contrast Assignments | |
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| How to Read the Text | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Organizing Your Paper | |
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| Writing Your Textual Analysis | |
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| A Sample Student Paper | |
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| The Quantitative Research Paper | |
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| Reviewing the Literature | |
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| Developing a Methods and Analysis Plan | |
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| Writing the Other Sections of Your Paper | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| A Sample Student Paper | |
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| The Ethnographic Field Research Paper | |
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| Goals and Methods of Ethnographic Field Research | |
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| Asking an Appropriate Question | |
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| Reviewing the Literature | |
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| Collecting Your Data | |
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| Example of Observational Field Notes | |
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| Example of Interview Notes | |
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| Organizing Your Data | |
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| Writing Your Paper | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| A Sample Student Paper | |
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| Finishing Up | |
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| Polishing | |
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| Editing | |
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| Formatting | |
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| A Final Checklist for Submitting Your Paper | |
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| Thinking Big | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |