Section I: Thinking broadly about writing sociology -- Introduction -- Turning ideas into researchable questions -- Overview of writing a research paper: an extended analogy -- Borrowing well from the literature -- Citing sources: why, when, and how -- Section II: Writing quantitative papers -- Quantitative papers: the introduction -- Quantitative papers: the literature review -- Quantitative papers: the data and methods section -- Quantitative papers: presenting results -- Quantitative papers: discussions and conclusions -- Section III: Writing qualitative papers -- Ethnographic interviewing and storytelling -- Writing a case study -- The internship journal -- Section IV: Other sociology writing tasks -- Revisiting literature reviews: applied sociology research projects -- Writing a book review -- Tips on writing theory and content papers -- Appendix: Word use and misuse.