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With humor and empathy, Mark Edwards’s handbook provides undergraduate and early-career graduate students guidance in sociological writing of all kinds. Writing in Sociology offers unusual approaches to developing ideas into research questions, utilizing research literature, constructing research papers, and completing different kinds of course writing (including case studies, theory papers, and applied social science projects). New chapters in the Second Edition offer insights into giving and receiving effective peer review and presenting qualitative research results. By focusing on how to think about the goals and strategies implicit in each section of a writing project this book provides accessible advice to novice sociological writers.
Presenting Qualitative Data: A Brief Example
Presenting Qualitative Data: A Brief Example
In 2009, two of my graduate students and I published a paper that began as a report for a rural county in our state. We were asked to evaluate how adequate and coordinated were the services available to homeless youth. We ended up interviewing a sample of social service providers (directors of shelters, public agencies, and various nonprofits) and a sample of homeless youth in the county. The study participants answered questions about the services provided or used. All of the interviews were open-ended, giving people a chance to tell what they knew in their own words. We took careful notes about what they said as we met with them. The first ...
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