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A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers

Seventh Edition ©2014 The Sociology Writing Group

A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers insightfully lead students through the writing process, encouraging them to think sociologically as they develop their ideas and begin to write.

Written in a clear and conversational style, the Guide both instructs students on the key st...
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A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers by The Sociology Writing Group - Seventh Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers insightfully lead students through the writing process, encouraging them to think sociologically as they develop their ideas and begin to write.

Written in a clear and conversational style, the Guide both instructs students on the key steps of specific writing assignments—such as developing a proposal or a research paper—and also helps students get started writing, develop their ideas, and conquer writers block. Throughout, actual student papers annotated with author comments provide real-life examples of good writing and how writing can be improved. With new and expanded coverage on evaluating and citing electronic sources, plagiarism, qualitative and quantitative methods, A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers, Seventh Edition remains an essential resource for anyone writing a sociology paper.

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"This is a great book! I love the organization, beginning with the overview of what it means to think sociologically. The students really seem to understand the importance of asking/answering a question once they have read the text."
Karen Kendrick, Albertus Magnus College

"A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers excels at illustrating and explaining an approach that incorporates the sociological imagination....My students have told me that the sample papers and examples of writing problems are very useful starting place for understanding what sociology writing looks like and how to do it themselves."
Elizabeth Jenner, Gustavus Adolphus College

"It is clear concise, user friendly and based in sociology. I really appreciate the way the guide asks 'What is sociology?' and encourages students to use their sociological imagination."
Michell Owen, University of Winnipeg

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Table of Contents

PART ONE: ESSENTIALS
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Designing Your Paper
Chapter 3: The Writing Process

PART TWO: WORKING WITH SOURCES
Chapter 4: Collecting and Evaluating Sources
Chapter 5: Citing Sources and Preparing Bibliographies

PART THREE: WRITING FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
Chapter 6: The Textual Analysis Paper
Chapter 7: The General Research Paper
Chapter 8: The Quantitative Paper
Chapter 9: The Qualitative Paper

PART FOUR: FINISHING UP

The Sociology Writing Group

The members of the Sociology Writing Group came together in 1984 to prepare a guide for instructors and students in sociology and writing courses at UCLA. A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers grew out of this collaborative effort.


William G. Roy is Professor of Sociology at UCLA, winner of the 1989 Luckman Award for Distinguished Teaching, and author of Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America (Princeton University Press, 1997) and Making Societies: The Historical Construction of Our World (Pine Forge Press, 2001). He specializes in the sociology of music and comparative-historical sociology, particularly long-term political and economic transformations.


Roseann Giarrusso is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in writing for sociology, social gerontology, and social psychology. She is also a consultant at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, where she conducts longitudinal research on intergenerational family relationships. She has over 40 publications, most of which apply a social psychological perspective to the study of family relationships and aging.


Judith Richlin-Klonsky has taught sociology for more than 25 years at institutions such as UCLA, UCLA Extension, UCSD, and Santa Rosa Junior College. Among the classes she has taught are the sociology of everyday life, aging and society, introductory sociology, sociology of mental illness, group processes, and race and ethnicity. As director of the UCLA Student Affairs Information and Research Office, she conducted research about the experiences and needs of undergraduate students. Judith Richlin-Klonsky holds a master’s degree in family therapy and received her Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA, where she was trained in qualitative research methods and an interpretive theoretical framework.


Ellen Strenski is Composition Director in the English Department at the University of California at Irvine. In addition to co-authoring The Research Paper Workbook (New York: Longman, 3rd ed., 1991) and Making Connections across the Curriculum: Readings for Analysis (Boston: Bedford, 1986), she has published articles in many pedagogical journals on the subject of writing in diverse disciplines. Most recently, she has exercised her sociological imagination in several articles and chapters that analyze issues in writing program administration.