With its insightful and encouraging discussion of the writing process, A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers, Seventh Edition is an essential resource for any sociology course. Written in a clear and conversational style, A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers helps students start writing, develop their ideas, and conquer writer's block. In addition, it provides instruction on key steps of specific assignments, such as developing a proposal or a literature review. The real student papers annotated with author comments provide real-life examples of good writing and how writing can be improved. Furthermore, the Seventh Edition includes new coverage of evaluating sources on the Web, citing sources and avoiding plagiarism, key elements of paper structure, drawing logical conclusions, understanding qualitative and quantitative methods, and more.

pt. 1. Essentials -- 1. Getting started -- 2. Designing your paper -- 3. The writing process -- pt. 2. Working with sources -- 4. Collecting and evaluating sources -- 5. citing sources and preparing bibliographies -- pt. 3. Writing from various data sources -- 6. The textual analysis paper -- 7. The general research paper -- 8. The quantitative research paper -- 9. The qualitative research paper -- pt. 4. Finishing up.