Sociology 790W - Writing for Sociology

This seminar examines the academic writing and publication process in sociology, with particular emphasis towards peer-reviewed articles as the central writing format of the field. We will give particular emphasis to the work of motivating an article and using a theoretical ?review? of the literature to do so, as well as building methods, results, and conclusions sections to support the motivating questions. We will also use these ideas to explore other kinds of academic writing (e.g., books and grants) and other parts of the writing process (e.g., selecting journals and finding collaboratives support for your work).

Sociology graduate students only.