1. Handy Tips for Taking Reading Notes (PDF)

This is a set of handy tips for producing reading notes and abstract. It includes a range of styles, from brief to extended notes.

• Basic concepts from sociology and anthropology
• Guide to Reading Social Science: how to work through long reading assignments
• More Detailed Questions for literature summaries
  
  Examples of literature summaries:
  • Chambliss. "A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy."
  • Conrad. "The Discovery of Hyperlunesis" - abstract and outline.
  • Housekenct. "Reference Group Support for Voluntary Childlessness."
  • Cochrane and Bean. "Husband-Wife Differences in the Demand for Children."
    
    
• Citing Electronic Materials with the new MLA Guidelines
• Chambliss, William J. "A Sociolagical Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy." Social Problems. Volume 12. Summer, 1964, pp. 67-77.
• Conrad, Peter. "The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behaviour." Social Problems. October 1975, pp. 12-21.
• Cochrane, Susan H., and Frank D. Bean. "Husband-Wife Differences in the Demand for Children." Journal of Marriage and the Family 38, 2 (May, 1976): 297-307.
• Housekencht, Sharon K. "Refrence Group Support fo Voluntart Childlessness: Evidence and Confornity." Journal of Marriage and the Family 39, 2 (May, 1977): 285-291.

2. Summarizing Literature within Your Paper (1) (PDF)

This is an illustration of how to reference existing literature as you introduce your own topic and work.

3. Summarizing Literature Within Your Paper (2) (PDF) (Courtesy of Patricia Ewick, PhD.
Associate Professor of Sociology; Used with Permission)

This is a second sample of literature survey for the introduction of a paper/proposal.

4. Road Map, Examples of Organizing Paragraphs

These are some examples of paragraphs that describe for the reader how the paper will be organized and the argument developed. "Safe Science: Governing Green Laboratories." Susan S. Silbey (PDF), a proposal for research funding.

5. A Short Bibliography on Qualitative Research Methods (PDF)