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 : a brief example -- 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.
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