Lynn Smith-Lovin is Robert L. Wilson Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Sociology (with secondary appointments in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Women's Studies) at Duke University.

Cary Moskovitz is Director of the Writing in the Disciplines University Writing Program at Duke University.

"Finally, a book about writing within sociology! Concise, well-written, and thorough, Writing in Sociology answers practically every question I've ever been asked about writing by a sociology undergraduate. It provides clear examples grounded in recent academic scholarship, including student writings, and makes explicit all of the implicit knowledge sociologists have about writing in their field." --Kathryn Lively, Dartmouth College

"I'm in love with Writing in Sociology. The text walks the reader through all the intricacies of sociological writing and provides a great snapshot of what it means to be a sociologist. Not only can we use it as the main textbook for our foundations courses, but we can and should require it for all our classes as a reference book. The undergraduates will get so much use out of it in terms of helping them write better and more in line with our expectations, and the graduate students will devour the chapters on writing about original research and sources. I would love to have this be the standard writing manual used for the sociology department." --Kassia Wosick, New Mexico State University

"Writing in Sociology is the Strunk and White for sociologists." --Natalie P. Byfield, St. John's University

"This is the best book about writing for sociology students that I have seen. " --Lisa Slattery Walker, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte