WRITING FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS is about how to start and finish your thesis, book, or article. Most of the analysis in this book is straightforwardly and unapologetically sociological, finding the root of writing problems and the possibilities of their solutions in social organizations.

Special features are:

• Learning to write as a professional
• Taking account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today
• Analysis of how the current academic environment creates new pressures and opportunities for writers