Writing between the lines

With friendly irreverence, Douglas Flemons demystifies the creative and scholarly demands of social science writing. Taking readers behind the scenes of the compositional process, he offers numerous suggestions for how to create and edit papers, theses, and dissertations (e.g., "suffer from sticky writing instead of writer's block," "treat your ideas like a novelist's characters," "treat your confusion like a dead canary"). He then provides detailed advice for how to approach each section of a typical social science manuscript, devoting special attention to the researching, organizing, and…