A Rhetoric for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Academic and Professional Communication
This book provides social science majors with a systematic  way of learning to write in their fields. It is based on the assumption that  such writing is not a mechanical process, but a kind of rhetoric social  scientists use to persuade each other of the validity of their research.  Features comprehensive coverage of research methods, including how  to plan and propose original research, how to gather data or evidence from  sources and how to document it. It goes beyond the typical survey of library  tools and offers a brief chapter on how to use the Internet as a research tool.