How to write empirical research articles in the social sciences: FREE BOOK
For the social scientist, writing is an essential skill. If you are an MA or PhD student, or post-doctoral scholar, or professor young, old, recent,…
Types of Qualitative Sociology Introductions
Whereas introductions in quantitative sociology articles follow the hard sciences and typically have either a one-step or two-step introduction, with a stated knowledge gap, research…
Concepts are the building blocks of research articles
The building blocks of a social science research article are concepts. The author must present and define all major concepts. Throughout the article, the author…
AI Writing Tips from Economist Tyler Cowen
Notable economist Tyler Cowen tells us how to use artificial intelligence (AI) for writing and learning. We learn it from an interview with David Perell,…
Sociology is dangerous! Why authoritarians and their supporters attack sociology
The Trump Administration censors sociological knowledge In 2025, the Trump Administration banned words that sociologists regularly use from appearing on government websites and publicly-funded school…
How to Find, Read, and Organize Academic Social Science Research
The bare bones of academic research is: Find and read academic articles, and organize the massive amounts of research materials you will collect and produce.…
ChatGPT Deep Research Output Misleads Us about Data Collection and Analysis
tl;dr ChatGPT Deep Research cannot access any datasets that it was not trained on. It spits out reports that strongly imply that it can, but it…
Grant writing: What makes social science research ideas fundable?
From idea to grant proposal: empirical research projects in the social sciences See also Some Tips on Finding Research Grants 10 Tips for Writing Research…
How to write an abstract for a social science research article
After the title, the abstract is the next important part of your article that your social science audience will read. In this post, we explain…
Effective titles in social science research are short, truthful, and informative
You want people to read your research. When looking for a useful article, titles are often the first thing people see. Titles should be useful…
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