Ideal for students new to academic writing, Writing in the Social Sciences is a clear, step-by-step guide to the entire writing process. Students will learn how to select and research a topic, develop and refine their ideas into a comprehensive outline, and convert the outline into a research paper or book report.

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Jake Muller is Professor Emeritus at Northwest Community College, where he taught introductory sociology courses and social work courses for over thirty years. He has edited two books, Community Organization and the Canadian State and Education for Work: Education as Work (both with Garamond Press), and has published a number of articles in textbooks and in The Community Development Journal, published by Oxford University Press.

"The set-up of the book is great-students can pick and choose which sections to read, or they can read the book from cover to cover." --Janni Aragon, University of Victoria

"This book is straightforward and very readable. . . . The use of Canadian examples is a real selling point for me. I also appreciate the reference to more citation styles in this edition." --Shelly Ikebuchi, Okanagan College