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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 | |