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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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Sociological Methods | |
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Framing a Question | |
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Summing Up | |
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Designing Your Paper | |
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Developing an Argument: Logic and Structure | |
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Terms and Strategies in Essay and Exam Assignments | |
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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 Writing | |
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Strategies for Getting Started | |
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Writing a Draft | |
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Getting Feedback and Revising | |
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Academic Writing Styles | |
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Summing Up | |
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Working With Sources | |
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Collecting and Evaluating Sources | |
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Before You Start: Choosing a Topic | |
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Determining Your First Source(s) | |
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Finding Sources on the Web | |
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Where to Find Specific Information | |
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General Bibliographic Sources | |
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Setting Up a Record-Keeping System | |
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Summing Up | |
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Citing Sources and Preparing Bibliographies | |
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due-Citations and Plagiarism | |
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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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Sample Annotated Bibliography | |
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Summing Up | |
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Writing From Various Data Sources | |
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The Textual Analysis 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 General Research Paper | |
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Reviewing the Sociological Literature | |
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Taking Notes for the General Research Paper | |
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Writing the General Research Paper | |
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A Sample Student Paper | |
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The Quantitative Research Paper | |
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Writing an Introduction | |
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Developing a Methods and Analysis Plan | |
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Writing the Other Sections of Your Paper: Methods, Results, and Discussion | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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A Sample Student Paper | |
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The Qualitative Research Paper | |
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What Is High Quality in a Qualitative Paper? | |
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Types of Qualitative Papers | |
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Goals and Methods of Ethnographic Field Research | |
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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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Editing | |
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Formatting | |
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A Checklist for Submitting Your Paper | |
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Thinking Big | |
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References | |
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Index | |