This comprehensive text is designed to teach beginning students how to conduct sociological research and write papers in the discipline. It is also valuable as a supplemental or reference text for advanced courses. This book relieves the professor from teaching much of the detail in the writing process. Any student that is assigned a writing project will greatly benefit from this supplemental book.

Encourages students to write by presenting samples of completed sociological work that demonstrate how to write about social research.

Enables students to consider the steps that the original writers and researchers took when carrying out their studies and what was learned from them. This helps students understand not only the techniques and skills of writing, but the motivation behind the studies as well.

Reveals the importance and the value of sociology itself by sharing the experiences of previous researchers when they researched and wrote their studies.

Suggests how students might generate their own study and provides a broad range of methods and projects from which they might consider topics and methodology.

Introduction.

I. A HANDBOOK OF STYLE FOR SOCIOLOGY.

1. Writing as Communication.
2. Writing Competently.
3. Formats.
4. Citing Sources.

II. HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY.

5. Organizing the Research Process.
6. The Library and Other Sources of Information.
7. Sociology on the World Wide Web.
8. Conducting Quantitative Research.

III. HOW TO WRITE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOCIOLOGY PAPERS.

9. Book Reviews.
10. Social Issue Analysis Papers.
11. Case Studies.
12. Sociological Survey Papers.

Glossary.
References.
Index.