Writing in sociology / Mark Edwards, Oregon State University.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Mark Evan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, [2015]
Edition:Second Edition.
Subjects:
Sociology > Authorship.
Sociology > Research.
Report writing.
Sociology > Study and teaching (Higher)
Physical Description:ix, 162 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Thinking broadly about writing sociology
  • Introduction
  • Turning ideas into researchable questions
  • Overview of writing a research paper: an extended analogy
  • Borrowing well from the literature
  • Citing sources: why, when, and how
  • Writing quantitative papers
  • Quantitative papers: the introduction
  • Quantitative papers: the literature review
  • Quantitative papers: the data and methods section
  • Quantitative papers: presenting results
  • Quantitative papers: discussions and conclusions
  • Writing qualitative papers
  • Presenting qualitative data
  • Ethnographic interviewing and storytelling
  • Writing a case study
  • The internship journal
  • Other sociology writing tasks
  • Revisiting literature reviews: applied sociology research projects
  • Peer review
  • Writing a book review
  • Tips on writing theory and content papers
  • Appendix: word use and misuse
  • Index
  • About the author.